Rajeev Gowda M V, Easterling D
Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore, India.
Risk Anal. 2000 Dec;20(6):917-29. doi: 10.1111/0272-4332.206084.
This article focuses on aspects of intragenerational and intergenerational equity in the context of a unique policy experiment: the effort of the U.S. government to site a monitored, retrievable storage (MRS) facility for high-level civilian nuclear waste. This process and its outcomes are examined from both normative and subjective perspectives. While the MRS siting process was designed to be equitable, its eventual focus on Native American communities raises profound questions about environmental justice, as well as procedural, outcome, and intergenerational equity in cross-cultural contexts. The diverse reactions among Native American tribes demonstrate that translating theoretical concepts of equity into practice is an extraordinarily complex exercise. The MRS siting process, instead of being a bold policy experiment that promoted equity, emerges substantially flawed after its implementation in the Native American context.
本文聚焦于代内公平和代际公平的相关方面，这是在一项独特的政策试验背景下进行探讨的：美国政府为高放民用核废料选址建设一个可监测、可回收的储存（MRS）设施的努力。从规范和主观两个角度审视了这一过程及其结果。虽然MRS选址过程旨在实现公平，但其最终对美国原住民社区的关注引发了有关环境正义以及跨文化背景下的程序公平、结果公平和代际公平的深刻问题。美国原住民部落之间的不同反应表明，将公平的理论概念转化为实践是一项极其复杂的工作。MRS选址过程在实施于美国原住民背景之后，非但没有成为一项促进公平的大胆政策试验，反而暴露出重大缺陷。
