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Review Of: Daniel M. Kammen & David M. Hassenzahl, Should We Risk It: Exploring Environmental, Health, And Technological Problem Solving, Christopher Verni
Review Of: Daniel M. Kammen & David M. Hassenzahl, Should We Risk It: Exploring Environmental, Health, And Technological Problem Solving, Christopher Verni
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
A review of the book Should We Risk It: Exploring Environmental, Health, and Technological Problem Solving by Daniel M. Kammen & David M. Hassenzahl, (Princeton University Press 1999). Preface, acknowledgments, introduction, appendix, index. ISBN: 0-691-00426-9 [404 pp. $39.50. Cloth, 41 William Street, Princeton, NJ 08540].
Expert And Public Evaluations Of Technological Risks: Searching For Common Ground, James Flynn, Paul Slovic
Expert And Public Evaluations Of Technological Risks: Searching For Common Ground, James Flynn, Paul Slovic
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Drs. Flynn and Slovic compare and evaluate the ways in which the public and experts perceive technological risks.
Environmental Decision Making And Risk Management For Groundwater Systems, Janet D. Gough
Environmental Decision Making And Risk Management For Groundwater Systems, Janet D. Gough
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
With an eye to a specific application in New Zealand, Ms. Gough explores the use of risk management approaches for environmental decision making at strategic, policy, management and operational levels.
Comparison Of Environmental Risk Provisions In The 103d Congress, Linda-Jo Schierow
Comparison Of Environmental Risk Provisions In The 103d Congress, Linda-Jo Schierow
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Dr. Schierow, an Analyst in Environmental Policy with the Congressional Research Service, presents a tabulated summary of comparable provisions in several bills with special attention to the Risk Assessment Improvement Act of 1994.
Scientific Conventions, Ethics And Legal Institutions, Carl F. Cranor
Scientific Conventions, Ethics And Legal Institutions, Carl F. Cranor
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
This article examines the use of epidemiology to evaluate Risks posed by toxic substances. Using illustrations drawn from an elaborate example, it argues that scientists applying usual conventions in doing statistical studies tend to ignore important normative issues.