Lee Towers is a postdoctoral researcher working at Teesside University looking into aspects of intra- and intergenerational justice and nuclear waste solutions. He holds a PhD in applied social sciences from Brighton University. This PhD explored energy justice with a focus on community energy organisations and their work on energy poverty and climate mitigation in the United Kingdom. Previous published work includes an examination of community energy work on reducing energy poverty in the UK privatised energy system and an exploration of the intergenerational aspects of the pandemic published by Brighton University. His current postdoctoral position is funded by the Nuclear Waste Services.Matthew Cotton is professor of environmental justice and public policy in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law at Teesside University. He holds a PhD in environmental science from the University of East Anglia. His research explores the social and ethical dimensions of technology development and environmental planning, and the effective involvement of stakeholders in questions of socio-economic and ecological justice. His previous published works on these topics include the monographs: Virtual Reality, Empathy and Ethics; Nuclear Waste Politics (Routledge); and Ethics and Technology Assessment; and co-edited volumes: Governing Shale Gas (Routledge) and Engaging Environmental Justice. His research in the field of environmental justice is funded by Nuclear Waste Services; Research England; The Economic and Social Research Council; Euratom; The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; and the National Institute for Public Health Research.

• IntroductionDefining Intergenerational JusticeThree Features of Intergenerational JusticeChildren as Proxies of Future GenerationsIndigenous Societies and the World System Humanity, Ethnoclass, Ability, Gender, and SexualityBook OutlinePart One – Intergenerational justice dilemmasChapter 1: The philosophical challenge of intergenerational justicePhilosophical challenges and concepts in intergenerational justiceCan future people have rights? The non-identity problemWhat obligations do we hold to future generations? The problem of reciprocityThe weighting of future obligations – the issue of social discountingSufficientarianism, or is enough, enough? Environmental RightsOntological challengesConclusionsChapter 2: Alternative philosophical traditionsSocial Relations of the GiftIndigenous Perspectives on Justice and TimeDefining the Human Across Deep TimeThe Over-determination of ManConclusions – a new/old subjectivity for intergenerational justiceChapter 3: Mainstream Economics and Scarce JusticeGenerational Wealth TransfersTrading JusticeThe Economics of the AnthropoceneConclusionsChapter 4: Abundant Justice and DemocracyIntergenerational DilemmasChildren and Young People as Future Generational ProxiesIntergenerational DemocracyMedia Framings of Youth ProtestorsYouth as ProxiesThe UN Convention on the Rights of ChildrenThe Intergenerational Capability ApproachFuture Studies, Decoloniality, and BackcastingMainstream Future StudiesBackcasting Decolonised?ConclusionsPart Two – Nuclear Waste and Intergenerational DemocracyChapter 5: Critical Nuclear ConceptsNuclear Landscapes & CommunitiesPeripheralisationEnergopowerNuclear Colonialism ConclusionsChapter 6: Canada and the Nuclear Waste Management OrganisationContext and HistoriesNWMO – Aims, Scope and AssumptionsThe Search for a GDF Site and ImplementationConclusionsChapter 7: The World’s First GDF – FinlandContext and HistoryAims, Scope and Assumptions of NWMOs in FinlandSTUKTVO & Fortum PosivaShared Assumptions Implementation of the Most Advanced GDF in the WorldFinland’s Search for a GDFMedia Representations and ConsumptionIntragenerational and Intergeneration Justice and Finland’s GDFConclusionsChapter 8: The United Kingdom and Nuclear Power and WasteContext and history of nuclear technologies in the United KingdomPeriod one – Economic and Military SecuritisationPeriod 2. Nuclear energy expansion and the recognition of waste as an environmental concernPeriod 3. The Deliberative TurnPeriod 4. Climate change securitisation Current UK Nuclear Waste PolicyImplementation of the GDF Expanding Costs and Expanding InventoriesDemocratic Deficits and the NuclearConclusionConclusion: Justice for AllNuclear Waste Management and JusticeDistributional JusticeProcedural JusticeThe Justice of RecognitionThe Justice of Redress and ReparationGhosts of Seppo and Western ScienceThe Darkness of the Grave or the Womb?ReferencesIndex

Lee Towers is a postdoctoral researcher working at Teesside University looking into aspects of intra- and intergenerational justice and nuclear waste solutions. He holds a PhD in applied social sciences from Brighton University. This PhD explored energy justice with a focus on community energy organisations and their work on energy poverty and climate mitigation in the United Kingdom. Previous published work includes an examination of community energy work on reducing energy poverty in the UK privatised energy system and an exploration of the intergenerational aspects of the pandemic published by Brighton University. His current postdoctoral position is funded by the Nuclear Waste Services.Matthew Cotton is professor of environmental justice and public policy in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law at Teesside University. He holds a PhD in environmental science from the University of East Anglia. His research explores the social and ethical dimensions of technology development and environmental planning, and the effective involvement of stakeholders in questions of socio-economic and ecological justice. His previous published works on these topics include the monographs: Virtual Reality, Empathy and Ethics; Nuclear Waste Politics (Routledge); and Ethics and Technology Assessment; and co-edited volumes: Governing Shale Gas (Routledge) and Engaging Environmental Justice. His research in the field of environmental justice is funded by Nuclear Waste Services; Research England; The Economic and Social Research Council; Euratom; The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; and the National Institute for Public Health Research.

• IntroductionDefining Intergenerational JusticeThree Features of Intergenerational JusticeChildren as Proxies of Future GenerationsIndigenous Societies and the World System Humanity, Ethnoclass, Ability, Gender, and SexualityBook OutlinePart One – Intergenerational justice dilemmasChapter 1: The philosophical challenge of intergenerational justicePhilosophical challenges and concepts in intergenerational justiceCan future people have rights? The non-identity problemWhat obligations do we hold to future generations? The problem of reciprocityThe weighting of future obligations – the issue of social discountingSufficientarianism, or is enough, enough? Environmental RightsOntological challengesConclusionsChapter 2: Alternative philosophical traditionsSocial Relations of the GiftIndigenous Perspectives on Justice and TimeDefining the Human Across Deep TimeThe Over-determination of ManConclusions – a new/old subjectivity for intergenerational justiceChapter 3: Mainstream Economics and Scarce JusticeGenerational Wealth TransfersTrading JusticeThe Economics of the AnthropoceneConclusionsChapter 4: Abundant Justice and DemocracyIntergenerational DilemmasChildren and Young People as Future Generational ProxiesIntergenerational DemocracyMedia Framings of Youth ProtestorsYouth as ProxiesThe UN Convention on the Rights of ChildrenThe Intergenerational Capability ApproachFuture Studies, Decoloniality, and BackcastingMainstream Future StudiesBackcasting Decolonised?ConclusionsPart Two – Nuclear Waste and Intergenerational DemocracyChapter 5: Critical Nuclear ConceptsNuclear Landscapes & CommunitiesPeripheralisationEnergopowerNuclear Colonialism ConclusionsChapter 6: Canada and the Nuclear Waste Management OrganisationContext and HistoriesNWMO – Aims, Scope and AssumptionsThe Search for a GDF Site and ImplementationConclusionsChapter 7: The World’s First GDF – FinlandContext and HistoryAims, Scope and Assumptions of NWMOs in FinlandSTUKTVO & Fortum PosivaShared Assumptions Implementation of the Most Advanced GDF in the WorldFinland’s Search for a GDFMedia Representations and ConsumptionIntragenerational and Intergeneration Justice and Finland’s GDFConclusionsChapter 8: The United Kingdom and Nuclear Power and WasteContext and history of nuclear technologies in the United KingdomPeriod one – Economic and Military SecuritisationPeriod 2. Nuclear energy expansion and the recognition of waste as an environmental concernPeriod 3. The Deliberative TurnPeriod 4. Climate change securitisation Current UK Nuclear Waste PolicyImplementation of the GDF Expanding Costs and Expanding InventoriesDemocratic Deficits and the NuclearConclusionConclusion: Justice for AllNuclear Waste Management and JusticeDistributional JusticeProcedural JusticeThe Justice of RecognitionThe Justice of Redress and ReparationGhosts of Seppo and Western ScienceThe Darkness of the Grave or the Womb?ReferencesIndex

Lee Towers is a postdoctoral researcher working at Teesside University looking into aspects of intra- and intergenerational justice and nuclear waste solutions. He holds a PhD in applied social sciences from Brighton University. This PhD explored energy justice with a focus on community energy organisations and their work on energy poverty and climate mitigation in the United Kingdom. Previous published work includes an examination of community energy work on reducing energy poverty in the UK privatised energy system and an exploration of the intergenerational aspects of the pandemic published by Brighton University. His current postdoctoral position is funded by the Nuclear Waste Services.Matthew Cotton is professor of environmental justice and public policy in the School of Social Sciences, Humanities, and Law at Teesside University. He holds a PhD in environmental science from the University of East Anglia. His research explores the social and ethical dimensions of technology development and environmental planning, and the effective involvement of stakeholders in questions of socio-economic and ecological justice. His previous published works on these topics include the monographs: Virtual Reality, Empathy and Ethics; Nuclear Waste Politics (Routledge); and Ethics and Technology Assessment; and co-edited volumes: Governing Shale Gas (Routledge) and Engaging Environmental Justice. His research in the field of environmental justice is funded by Nuclear Waste Services; Research England; The Economic and Social Research Council; Euratom; The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office; and the National Institute for Public Health Research.

• IntroductionDefining Intergenerational JusticeThree Features of Intergenerational JusticeChildren as Proxies of Future GenerationsIndigenous Societies and the World System Humanity, Ethnoclass, Ability, Gender, and SexualityBook OutlinePart One – Intergenerational justice dilemmasChapter 1: The philosophical challenge of intergenerational justicePhilosophical challenges and concepts in intergenerational justiceCan future people have rights? The non-identity problemWhat obligations do we hold to future generations? The problem of reciprocityThe weighting of future obligations – the issue of social discountingSufficientarianism, or is enough, enough? Environmental RightsOntological challengesConclusionsChapter 2: Alternative philosophical traditionsSocial Relations of the GiftIndigenous Perspectives on Justice and TimeDefining the Human Across Deep TimeThe Over-determination of ManConclusions – a new/old subjectivity for intergenerational justiceChapter 3: Mainstream Economics and Scarce JusticeGenerational Wealth TransfersTrading JusticeThe Economics of the AnthropoceneConclusionsChapter 4: Abundant Justice and DemocracyIntergenerational DilemmasChildren and Young People as Future Generational ProxiesIntergenerational DemocracyMedia Framings of Youth ProtestorsYouth as ProxiesThe UN Convention on the Rights of ChildrenThe Intergenerational Capability ApproachFuture Studies, Decoloniality, and BackcastingMainstream Future StudiesBackcasting Decolonised?ConclusionsPart Two – Nuclear Waste and Intergenerational DemocracyChapter 5: Critical Nuclear ConceptsNuclear Landscapes & CommunitiesPeripheralisationEnergopowerNuclear Colonialism ConclusionsChapter 6: Canada and the Nuclear Waste Management OrganisationContext and HistoriesNWMO – Aims, Scope and AssumptionsThe Search for a GDF Site and ImplementationConclusionsChapter 7: The World’s First GDF – FinlandContext and HistoryAims, Scope and Assumptions of NWMOs in FinlandSTUKTVO & Fortum PosivaShared Assumptions Implementation of the Most Advanced GDF in the WorldFinland’s Search for a GDFMedia Representations and ConsumptionIntragenerational and Intergeneration Justice and Finland’s GDFConclusionsChapter 8: The United Kingdom and Nuclear Power and WasteContext and history of nuclear technologies in the United KingdomPeriod one – Economic and Military SecuritisationPeriod 2. Nuclear energy expansion and the recognition of waste as an environmental concernPeriod 3. The Deliberative TurnPeriod 4. Climate change securitisation Current UK Nuclear Waste PolicyImplementation of the GDF Expanding Costs and Expanding InventoriesDemocratic Deficits and the NuclearConclusionConclusion: Justice for AllNuclear Waste Management and JusticeDistributional JusticeProcedural JusticeThe Justice of RecognitionThe Justice of Redress and ReparationGhosts of Seppo and Western ScienceThe Darkness of the Grave or the Womb?ReferencesIndex