Cost-Benefit Analysis as Democratic Ritual: The Controversy Over a Proposed Uranium Mining and Milling Project in Virginia (1981-2013)

This dissertation explores the role of science and technology in democracy and the use of cost-benefit analysis (CBA) through an illustrative case on a uranium mining controversy in the US state of Virginia. Arguably, traditional STS scholarship has primarily served what we might call an unmaskin...

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Main Author: de Souza, Charles Robert
Other Authors: Science and Technology Studies
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2018
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/83782