Sweden's energy debate The nuclear controversy

A historical case study of Swedish nuclear energy policy and use, where the researchers will investigate what kind of actors and events have shaped Swedish nuclear energy policy from the 1970’s up until the present day. A multi-discplinary approach is adhered to throughout with an application of theories from the fields of communication, political and environmental science to our source material, which include a wide variety of academic journals as well as previous research done on Swedish nuclear policy and public perception. The actors that we have focused on in this research includes the public, politicians, political parties, mass media and scientists & experts. The research shows that there is an on-going struggle for influence amongst the different actors, and that they all shape each other’s actions, messages and to an extent, also beliefs.

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Family Therapy, 2019

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2009

s o c i e t y o p i n i o n m e d i a s o c i e t y o p i n i o n m e d i a Swedish Opinion on Nuclear Power

Call for paper and posters for the V Plenary session of Dialogi Europaei named "Sustainable business...tested through dialogue"

In the early 1990s xenotransplantation (XTP) was a promising biotechnology, with many countries prepared to take this research to clinical trials. It was also a technology associated with so many problems and risks that the researchers sought financial support to continue their XTP research. This was, in many ways, an international concern, as the researchers tried to collaborate to overcome those problems and risks. But despite this international effort, the situation became a national policy process in many countries where researchers, politicians and stakeholders tried to find a solution and take the next step in XTP research. In this case study, we take a closer look at Sweden and how the national policy process took shape in the 1990s. As we will see in this case study, Swedish XTP researchers and politicians were involved in various international networks, but when it came to initiating a more formal policy process, the discussion became more or less national. Swedish law needed to change so that the country‘s XTP researchers could continue with their research and take it to clinical trials. The policy process was closely linked to the idea that Sweden as a nation could gain an advantage, both for the researchers and for the state. The new biotechnology could benefit the citizens and provide future funding for the welfare society. To achieve this, Swedish researchers needed to be the first to clinically introduce this technology. So this case study is about how a nation tries to gain advantages in an international research arena. It is also a case study of what role the citizens have in the policy process. Biotechnology that is problematic and risky, for various reasons, needs the approval of the general public, because they will be the end users. In this case study, we take a closer look at how researchers and politicians interacted with the citizens in the policy process.

Environmental Politics, 1999

PROFILES 143 most other countries -only Lithuania, France, Belgium and Ukraine are more dependent on nuclear energy.

Policy Sciences, 1988

This article offers a rhetorical perspective on the Swedish project of nuclear waste management – how inventio has been shaped throughout the project, with focus on alignment of perspectives and adaptation of argument to achieve a solution to an urgent problem – fi nding a location for spent nuclear fuel repository. The study fi nds that the organizations representing the " environmental " perspective have gradually (1970s-2010s) integrated the argumentation of the nuclear industry into their own position. Also the treatment of " environment " as a material ground for argument has changed over the years – from a separated topic for the critics of the repository project, to a commonplace argument, and from a local value to a political notion. Niniejszy artykuł przyjmuje perspektywę retoryczną w badaniu dyskursu na temat odpadów radioaktyw-nych w Szwecji. Sprawdza on jak kształtowane jest inventio w publicznej debacie nad lokalizacją depozytu odpadów nuklearnych, ze szczególnym uwzględnieniem procesu adaptacji argumentów i uzgadniania wspólnych pozycji miedzy stroną pro-ekologiczną i stroną instytucjonalną. Badanie wykazuje jak organizacje ekologiczne stopniowo (od lat 1970tych do 2010-tych) zintegrowały swoją argumentację z postulatami przemysłu nuklearnego. Zmieniało się między innymi użycie argumentu ochrony środowiska naturalnego: z kluczowej przesłanki materialnej do formalnego toposu, oraz z wartości lokalnej wspólnoty po konstrukt polityczny.