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Papers by Robin Grove-White
Studies in Christian Ethics, Aug 1, 2001
Index on Censorship, 1978
The question of world energy needs and of the role of nuclear power in filling those needs is com... more The question of world energy needs and of the role of nuclear power in filling those needs is complex, but in the United States two basic views on the subject can be identified. Nuclear advocates say that the world must continue to increase energy consumption and production to maintain economic stability and progress and that we are depleting rapidly our known, usable fossil fuel reserves. They call for widespread development of nuclear reactors as the safest, least polluting and most economical way to provide more energy and to forestall the eventual and complete depletion of fossil fuel supplies. Nuclear opponents argue that economic growth can continue while the world reduces energy use through easily-tolerated conservation methods, that nuclear power is neither safe, non-polluting, nor economical, and that safer, cheaper alternative energy sources (wind, sun, water, geothermal, etc.) can and should be developed. A major area of conflict is over safety, but even many advocates acknowledge that certain hazards are inherent in atomic power. Catastrophes are to be feared from various quarters: terrorists could obtain plutonium, a radioactive, poisonous explosive which is a by-product of the atomic energy process and from which atomic bombs can be made. Human or mechanical accidents, earthquakes, fires or floods could take place at refining facilities, reactors, waste disposal sites, or in the transport of nuclear fuel and wastes. Any event like this would release dangerous quantities of radioactive poisons near population centres. Other fears are that men cannot devise a permanent, fail-safe method of storing the waste products of nuclear power (plutonium, for example, has been called ' fiendishly toxic' by one of its discoverers, and it remains lethal for 250,000 years), and that proliferation of nuclear power will cause a concomitant rise in birth defects and cancer due to the increase in low-level ' background radiation' from nuclear plants. Concerned advocates call for
The Political Quarterly, Sep 1, 1997
... It helps explain, for example, the continuing enthusiasm within the Department of the Environ... more ... It helps explain, for example, the continuing enthusiasm within the Department of the Environment and its agencies for the development and ... It also helps explain recent drives towards cost-benefit 'rationalisation' of public expenditures on risk management in the industrial and ...
Nature, Dec 1, 2003
Progress is made through the achievements of many who are not singled out for reward.
Abstract The main report is presented of a study, written and coordinated by the Centre for the S... more Abstract The main report is presented of a study, written and coordinated by the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change at Lancaster University for the Council for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE), which explores the far-reaching implications of new issues in the fields of leisure and tourism in the UK countryside. The report contains six chapters: Leisure: a growing national concern; Conflicts in the countryside; Public agencies and public attitudes; Social and cultural tensions; Tourism: the new leisure discourse; and The ...
Mayer, S. and Hill, J. and Grove-White, RB and Wynne, BE (1996) Uncertainty, precaution and decis... more Mayer, S. and Hill, J. and Grove-White, RB and Wynne, BE (1996) Uncertainty, precaution and decision making : the release of genetically modified organisms into the environment. Global Environmental Change Programme Briefing, 8. p. 4. ... Full text not available from this ...
Index on Censorship, 2007
The ‘acts of union’ administrative and judicial machinery, through which Wales was governed from ... more The ‘acts of union’ administrative and judicial machinery, through which Wales was governed from the late-Tudor period onwards, gave a major role to native Welshmen. It is sometimes argued that this encouraged a predominantly self-seeking Welsh gentry class to consolidate, attracted to English priorities, to the continuing detriment of Welsh culture and language. Through an examination of the life and career of a single individual from this class, the lawyer-landowner Hugh Hughes (c. 1548-1609) of Plas Coch in Anglesey, it is argued on the contrary that the multi-tiered administrative system helped perpetuate Welsh distinctiveness, with highly educated bi-lingual lawyers like Hughes himself crucial to the effectiveness of the machinery of government. His English university and legal training is shown to have been compatible with continued embeddedness in Welsh-speaking Anglesey, and the thesis uses him as a prism for understanding the various north Welsh governance institutions, in ...
Risk, Environment and Modernity: Towards a New Ecology
A Handbook
CHAPTER TWO Contexts of citizen participation Clair Gough, Eric Darter, Bruna De Marchi, Silvio F... more CHAPTER TWO Contexts of citizen participation Clair Gough, Eric Darter, Bruna De Marchi, Silvio Funtowicz, Robin Grove-White, Angela Guimaraes Pereira, Simon Shackley, and Brian Wynne Climate change: between democracy and expertise? Climate change represents one of ...
Tourism Management, 1995
ABSTRACT
Time & Society, 1997
The ways in which issues of differential times and time-scales make themselves felt in environmen... more The ways in which issues of differential times and time-scales make themselves felt in environmental politics are explored. Official and industrial `control' of time-scales within environmental regulatory processes is seen to be an important determinant of the forms such politics take in countries like the UK. It is argued that the opening up of `time' debates carries far-reaching and positive implications for `sustainability' aspirations in the industrial world.
Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, 1997
Whilst the local multiplier impacts of the annual operation of universities has been the subject ... more Whilst the local multiplier impacts of the annual operation of universities has been the subject of intensive research, the economic impacts of capital construction projects have been almost completely ignored. This paper presents the results of detailed analysis of capital projects at Lancaster University in 1993- The reasons for the radically different annual operation and construction multipliers estimated in the Lancaster study are examined. Despite the smaller size of construction multipliers it is argued that it is a serious mistake to estimate local construction multipliers by making simplifying assumptions on the size of the key parameters in the multiplier equations.
Environmental Ethics, 1993
Global Environmental …, 1996
Mayer, S. and Hill, J. and Grove-White, RB and Wynne, BE (1996) Uncertainty, precaution and decis... more Mayer, S. and Hill, J. and Grove-White, RB and Wynne, BE (1996) Uncertainty, precaution and decision making : the release of genetically modified organisms into the environment. Global Environmental Change Programme Briefing, 8. p. 4. ... Full text not available from this ...
Leisure landscapes. Leisure, culture and the English countryside: challenges and conflicts. Background papers., 1994
The paper describes the scale and characteristics of the leisure and tourism industry in the UK. ... more The paper describes the scale and characteristics of the leisure and tourism industry in the UK. The leisure industry, characterized by fragmentation and diversity, has grown dramatically over recent years, and in 1988 leisure accounted for 27% of total UK consumer spending. Tourism is the sector of leisure that has shown most growth, and is now claimed to be the world's largest employer. In the UK, it accounts for 4% of GDP and 6% of consumer spending. Despite this, the tourism balance of payments is negative, and the ...
Leisure landscapes. Leisure, culture and the English countryside: challenges and conflicts. Background papers., 1994
A survey of local amenity society attitudes to tourism in the UK is summarized. Amenity societies... more A survey of local amenity society attitudes to tourism in the UK is summarized. Amenity societies are voluntary organizations formed with the basic aim of upholding high standards of environmental management in their areas of interest. About 1000 such societies in the UK are registered with the Civic Trust and their aggregate membership is about 300 000. The survey suggests overall that there is growing interest in, and concern about, the growth in demand for leisure developments and recreational activities in the ...
Studies in Christian Ethics, Aug 1, 2001
Index on Censorship, 1978
The question of world energy needs and of the role of nuclear power in filling those needs is com... more The question of world energy needs and of the role of nuclear power in filling those needs is complex, but in the United States two basic views on the subject can be identified. Nuclear advocates say that the world must continue to increase energy consumption and production to maintain economic stability and progress and that we are depleting rapidly our known, usable fossil fuel reserves. They call for widespread development of nuclear reactors as the safest, least polluting and most economical way to provide more energy and to forestall the eventual and complete depletion of fossil fuel supplies. Nuclear opponents argue that economic growth can continue while the world reduces energy use through easily-tolerated conservation methods, that nuclear power is neither safe, non-polluting, nor economical, and that safer, cheaper alternative energy sources (wind, sun, water, geothermal, etc.) can and should be developed. A major area of conflict is over safety, but even many advocates acknowledge that certain hazards are inherent in atomic power. Catastrophes are to be feared from various quarters: terrorists could obtain plutonium, a radioactive, poisonous explosive which is a by-product of the atomic energy process and from which atomic bombs can be made. Human or mechanical accidents, earthquakes, fires or floods could take place at refining facilities, reactors, waste disposal sites, or in the transport of nuclear fuel and wastes. Any event like this would release dangerous quantities of radioactive poisons near population centres. Other fears are that men cannot devise a permanent, fail-safe method of storing the waste products of nuclear power (plutonium, for example, has been called ' fiendishly toxic' by one of its discoverers, and it remains lethal for 250,000 years), and that proliferation of nuclear power will cause a concomitant rise in birth defects and cancer due to the increase in low-level ' background radiation' from nuclear plants. Concerned advocates call for
The Political Quarterly, Sep 1, 1997
... It helps explain, for example, the continuing enthusiasm within the Department of the Environ... more ... It helps explain, for example, the continuing enthusiasm within the Department of the Environment and its agencies for the development and ... It also helps explain recent drives towards cost-benefit 'rationalisation' of public expenditures on risk management in the industrial and ...
Nature, Dec 1, 2003
Progress is made through the achievements of many who are not singled out for reward.
Abstract The main report is presented of a study, written and coordinated by the Centre for the S... more Abstract The main report is presented of a study, written and coordinated by the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change at Lancaster University for the Council for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE), which explores the far-reaching implications of new issues in the fields of leisure and tourism in the UK countryside. The report contains six chapters: Leisure: a growing national concern; Conflicts in the countryside; Public agencies and public attitudes; Social and cultural tensions; Tourism: the new leisure discourse; and The ...
Mayer, S. and Hill, J. and Grove-White, RB and Wynne, BE (1996) Uncertainty, precaution and decis... more Mayer, S. and Hill, J. and Grove-White, RB and Wynne, BE (1996) Uncertainty, precaution and decision making : the release of genetically modified organisms into the environment. Global Environmental Change Programme Briefing, 8. p. 4. ... Full text not available from this ...
Index on Censorship, 2007
The ‘acts of union’ administrative and judicial machinery, through which Wales was governed from ... more The ‘acts of union’ administrative and judicial machinery, through which Wales was governed from the late-Tudor period onwards, gave a major role to native Welshmen. It is sometimes argued that this encouraged a predominantly self-seeking Welsh gentry class to consolidate, attracted to English priorities, to the continuing detriment of Welsh culture and language. Through an examination of the life and career of a single individual from this class, the lawyer-landowner Hugh Hughes (c. 1548-1609) of Plas Coch in Anglesey, it is argued on the contrary that the multi-tiered administrative system helped perpetuate Welsh distinctiveness, with highly educated bi-lingual lawyers like Hughes himself crucial to the effectiveness of the machinery of government. His English university and legal training is shown to have been compatible with continued embeddedness in Welsh-speaking Anglesey, and the thesis uses him as a prism for understanding the various north Welsh governance institutions, in ...
Risk, Environment and Modernity: Towards a New Ecology
A Handbook
CHAPTER TWO Contexts of citizen participation Clair Gough, Eric Darter, Bruna De Marchi, Silvio F... more CHAPTER TWO Contexts of citizen participation Clair Gough, Eric Darter, Bruna De Marchi, Silvio Funtowicz, Robin Grove-White, Angela Guimaraes Pereira, Simon Shackley, and Brian Wynne Climate change: between democracy and expertise? Climate change represents one of ...
Tourism Management, 1995
ABSTRACT
Time & Society, 1997
The ways in which issues of differential times and time-scales make themselves felt in environmen... more The ways in which issues of differential times and time-scales make themselves felt in environmental politics are explored. Official and industrial `control' of time-scales within environmental regulatory processes is seen to be an important determinant of the forms such politics take in countries like the UK. It is argued that the opening up of `time' debates carries far-reaching and positive implications for `sustainability' aspirations in the industrial world.
Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, 1997
Whilst the local multiplier impacts of the annual operation of universities has been the subject ... more Whilst the local multiplier impacts of the annual operation of universities has been the subject of intensive research, the economic impacts of capital construction projects have been almost completely ignored. This paper presents the results of detailed analysis of capital projects at Lancaster University in 1993- The reasons for the radically different annual operation and construction multipliers estimated in the Lancaster study are examined. Despite the smaller size of construction multipliers it is argued that it is a serious mistake to estimate local construction multipliers by making simplifying assumptions on the size of the key parameters in the multiplier equations.
Environmental Ethics, 1993
Global Environmental …, 1996
Mayer, S. and Hill, J. and Grove-White, RB and Wynne, BE (1996) Uncertainty, precaution and decis... more Mayer, S. and Hill, J. and Grove-White, RB and Wynne, BE (1996) Uncertainty, precaution and decision making : the release of genetically modified organisms into the environment. Global Environmental Change Programme Briefing, 8. p. 4. ... Full text not available from this ...
Leisure landscapes. Leisure, culture and the English countryside: challenges and conflicts. Background papers., 1994
The paper describes the scale and characteristics of the leisure and tourism industry in the UK. ... more The paper describes the scale and characteristics of the leisure and tourism industry in the UK. The leisure industry, characterized by fragmentation and diversity, has grown dramatically over recent years, and in 1988 leisure accounted for 27% of total UK consumer spending. Tourism is the sector of leisure that has shown most growth, and is now claimed to be the world's largest employer. In the UK, it accounts for 4% of GDP and 6% of consumer spending. Despite this, the tourism balance of payments is negative, and the ...
Leisure landscapes. Leisure, culture and the English countryside: challenges and conflicts. Background papers., 1994
A survey of local amenity society attitudes to tourism in the UK is summarized. Amenity societies... more A survey of local amenity society attitudes to tourism in the UK is summarized. Amenity societies are voluntary organizations formed with the basic aim of upholding high standards of environmental management in their areas of interest. About 1000 such societies in the UK are registered with the Civic Trust and their aggregate membership is about 300 000. The survey suggests overall that there is growing interest in, and concern about, the growth in demand for leisure developments and recreational activities in the ...