Publications

Selection of publications and conferences

Articles in international peer-reviewed journals

Kermisch C. and Depaus C., “An ethical analysis of the impact of reversibility and retrievability provisions on well-being”, Progress in Nuclear Energy 177, 2024.
Kermisch C. and Depaus C., “Accounting for future generations in energy ethics: the case for temporalized ethical matrices”, Ethics, policy & environment 27(1), 2024, p.30-47.
Kwakkel J., Taebi B. and Kermisch C., “Governing climate risks in the face of normative uncertainties”, WIREs: Climate Change 11(5), 11p.
Kermisch C. and Depaus C., “The strength of ethical matrixes as a tool for normative analysis related to technological choices: the case of geological disposal for radioactive waste”, Science and engineering ethics 24(1), 2018, p. 29-48.
Kermisch C. and Taebi B., “Sustainability, ethics and nuclear energy: escaping the dichotomy”, Sustainability 9(3), 2017, 13p.
Kermisch C., Depaus C. and Labeau P.-E., “A contribution to the analysis of equity associated with high-level radioactive waste management”, Progress in nuclear energy 92, 2016, p.40-47.
Kermisch C., “Can today’s decisions really be future-proofed?”, Nature 530 (7591), February 2016, p 383.
Kermisch C., “Specifying the concept of future generations for addressing issues related to high-level radioactive waste”, Science and engineering ethics 22(6), 2016, p. 1797-1811.
Turcanu C., Perko T. and Kermisch C., “What makes nuclear energy (not) acceptable?”, ATW – International Journal for nuclear power 58 (8/9), 2013, p. 491-498.
Kermisch C. and Labeau P.-E., “Communicating about nuclear events: some suggestions to improve INES”, Reliability engineering & system safety 119, 2013, p. 165-171.
Kermisch C., “Vers une définition multidimensionnelle du risque”, Vertigo 12(2), 2012.
Kermisch C., “Do new ethical issues arise at each stage of nanotechnological development?”, Nanoethics 6(1), 2012, p.29-37.
Kermisch C., “Risk and responsibility: a complex and evolving relationship”, Science and engineering ethics 18(1), 2012,
p. 91-102.
Kermisch C., “Questioning the INES scale after the Fukushima Daiichi accident”, Ethics, policy and environment 14(3), 2011, p.279-283.

Monographs and edited volumes

Kermisch C., Le concept de risque. De l’épistémologie à l’éthique (96 pages), Paris, Lavoisier, 2011.
Kermisch C., Les paradigmes de la perception du risque (248 p., Préface : Dominique Bourg), Paris, Lavoisier, 2010.
Kermisch C. and Pinsart M.-G. (eds.), Les nanotechnologies : vers un changement d’échelle éthique ? (378 pages), Fernelmont, EME, 2012.
Kermisch C. and Hottois G. (eds.), Techniques et philosophies des risques (254 pages), Paris, Vrin, 2007.

Chapters in edited volumes

Kermisch C. and Depaus C., “Applying the optimisation principle to the choice of the host rock for geological disposal: Epistemological and ethical dimensions” in Proceedings of the NEA IGSC Safety Case Safety Case Symposium, forthcoming.
Kermisch C. and Depaus C., « Radioactive waste and responsibility towards future generations », in Broadhead S. & Placani A. (eds.), Risk and responsibility in context,
Routledge, 2024.
Kermisch C., “Théorie culturelle”, in Marchand D. et al. (eds.), Dictionnaire de psychologie environnementale, Paris, Dunod, 2022.
Kermisch C., “Radioactive waste”, in Brinkmann R. (ed.), The Palgrave Global Handbook of Sustainability, Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Kermisch C., “De l’éthique des technologies à la perception de leurs risques”, in AM Covéa. Histoires de mutualisme, Paris, Le Cherche-Midi, 2019, p. 112-115.
Kermisch C., “Quand l’artiste s’approprie la problématique de la mémoire des déchets radioactifs”, in Massart C. (ed.) Archives du futur pour une culture nucléaire, Bruxelles, La
Lettre volée, 2018, p. 31-32.
Kermisch C., “Nanotechnologies et technologies convergentes” et “Risque” in Hottois G. et al. (eds.), Humain, transhumain, posthumain. L’homme et ses préfixes, Paris, Vrin, 2014.
Kermisch C., “Perception, epistemics, and ethics: a triple perspective on the specificity of nanotechnologies and their risks”, in Kermisch C. and Pinsart M.-G (eds.), Les
nanotechnologies : vers un changement d’échelle éthique ?, Fernelmont, EME, 2012, p. 183-197.
Kermisch C. and Labeau P.-E., “Théorie culturaliste et perception des risques : une analyse critique”, in Kahn P. et al. (eds.), Anticipation, innovation, perception : des défis pour la
maîtrise des risques à l’horizon 2020, Paris, Lavoisier, 2010, p.253-266.
Kermisch C., “Enhancement et perception des risques”, in Missa J.-N. and Perbal L. (eds.),“Enhancement”. Ethique et philosophie de la médecine d’amélioration, Paris, Vrin, 2009,
p. 133-145.

Edition and referee work

Referee for the following journals: Fire safety journal; International social science journal;
Science and engineering ethics; Journal of risk research; Ethics, policy and environment;
Reliability, engineering & system safety; International Journal of risk assessment and
management; Cahiers de droit européen.
2010-2016: Creation and direction of the collection “Ethics in action” dedicated to applied
ethics, Editions Modulaires Européennes, Fernelmont.
D. Selection of invited conferences
Kermisch C., “Integrating ethics in the societal debate in Belgium (2023-2024)”, Seventh
International Conference on Geological Repositories (ICGR- 7), Busan (South Korea),
29/05/2024.

Selection of invited conferences

Kermisch C., “Integrating ethics in the societal debate in Belgium (2023-2024)”, Seventh International Conference on Geological Repositories (ICGR- 7), Busan (South Korea), 29/05/2024.
Kermisch C., “Nuclear waste, retrievability and future generations”, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, 12/12/2023.
Kermisch C., “L’éthique dans l’entreprise : pour le meilleur ou pour le pire ?”, Inaugural conference for Les Entretiens du risque 2019 de l’Institut pour la Maîtrise Des Risques, Paris, France, 03/12/2019.
Kermisch C. and Depaus C., “Applying the optimisation principle to the choice of the host rock for geological disposal: ethical and epistemological dimensions”, NEA Integration Group for the Safety Case (IGSC) Symposium 2018, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 10/10/2018.
Kermisch C., “Perceptions des risques et ondes électromagnétiques”, Télécom ParisTech, Paris, France, 15/12/2016.
Kermisch C., “Towards an ethical management of HLRW: challenging the notion of future generations”, RESET of U.S. Nuclear Waste Management Strategy and Policy, Stanford
University, Stanford, USA, 27/10/2016.
Kermisch C., “An ethical management of technologies? The usefulness of ethical matrixes”, 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Ethics in Engineering, Science and Technology, Vancouver, Canada, 14/05/2016.
Kermisch C., “Is it relevant to refer to ‘future generations’ when analyzing HLRW management strategies? ”, Keynote speaker for the conference “Ethics and Governance of
Energy Technologies”, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 15/01/2016.
Kermisch C., “Quels statuts ontologique et épistémologique pour le risque ? ”, Retour sur la société du risque, Cerisy-La-Salle, France, 7/09/2011.