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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Promoting Informed Decision-Making: The Role Of Message Structure, Clifford Scherer, Katherine Mccomas, Napoleon Juanillo Jr., Lisa Pelstring
Promoting Informed Decision-Making: The Role Of Message Structure, Clifford Scherer, Katherine Mccomas, Napoleon Juanillo Jr., Lisa Pelstring
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
The authors analyze two empirical explorations of relationships between the composition of risk message and critical thinking within audiences.
Risk Regulation And The Faces Of Uncertainty, Vern R. Walker
Risk Regulation And The Faces Of Uncertainty, Vern R. Walker
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Dr. Walker addresses the difficulty of regulators' working with potentially inaccurate information and clarifies related aspects of decision making by presenting a taxonomy for the kinds of uncertainty inherent in necessarily incomplete data.
Monte Carlo Simulation In Environmental Risk Assessment--Science, Policy And Legal Issues, Susan R. Poulter
Monte Carlo Simulation In Environmental Risk Assessment--Science, Policy And Legal Issues, Susan R. Poulter
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Dr. Poulter notes that agencies should anticipate judicial requirements for justification of Monte Carlo simulations and, meanwhile, should consider, e.g., whether their use will make risk assessment policy choices more opaque or apparent.
The Normative Nature Of Risk Assessment: Features And Possibilities, Carl F. Cranor
The Normative Nature Of Risk Assessment: Features And Possibilities, Carl F. Cranor
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Dr. Cranor argues that appreciating risk assessment to be permeated with normative presuppositions, in contrast with being primarily objective, opens up unforeseen possibilities for risk management.
How Some Risk Frameworks Disenfranchise The Public, Kristin Shrader-Frechette
How Some Risk Frameworks Disenfranchise The Public, Kristin Shrader-Frechette
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
The author responds to recent characterizations of her work.
Competing Conceptions Of Risk, Paul B. Thompson, Wesley Dean
Competing Conceptions Of Risk, Paul B. Thompson, Wesley Dean
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Recent literature is said to reflect growing acknowledgment of multiple conceptions of risk but often to obscure an important distinction. Building on work of Kristin Shrader-Frechette, the authors explore the potential for debate over competing philosophical conceptions of risk.
Risk Criteria For Approving Or Rejecting Field Tests Of High-Performance Weapons, Shaul Feller, Michael Maharik
Risk Criteria For Approving Or Rejecting Field Tests Of High-Performance Weapons, Shaul Feller, Michael Maharik
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Because details are classified and participation by affected populations is limited, military test ranges impose difficult challenges on those responsible for their safety. Here, the authors catalog some of those challenges and suggest ways to address them.
From Comparative Risk To Decision Analysis: Ranking Solutions To Multiple-Value Environmental Problems, John Kadvany
From Comparative Risk To Decision Analysis: Ranking Solutions To Multiple-Value Environmental Problems, John Kadvany
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
While recognizing that the making of environmental policy is sufficiently complex that no one method can serve all conditions, Dr. Kadvany urges that more attention be given to multiattribute utility and decision analysis. He suggests this can help, e.g., to illuminate stakeholder values and generate alternative approaches.
Present Risk, Future Risk Or No Risk - Measuring And Predicting Perceptions Of Health Risks Of A Hazardous Waste Landfill, William K. Hallman, Abraham H. Wandersman
Present Risk, Future Risk Or No Risk - Measuring And Predicting Perceptions Of Health Risks Of A Hazardous Waste Landfill, William K. Hallman, Abraham H. Wandersman
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Given that perceived risk is multidimensional, the authors seek better understanding by focusing on health risks and, more particularly, on their temporality. In this way, they attempt to measure more meaningfully psychological influences on risk perceptions.
Evaluating The Expertise Of Experts, Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette
Evaluating The Expertise Of Experts, Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Professor Shrader-Frechette maintains that a rigid distinction between risk assessment and risk management is unwise. Concerned about procedural fairness, she argues that the public should have a voice in both.
Congressional Risk Proposals, Dalton G. Paxman
Congressional Risk Proposals, Dalton G. Paxman
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Dr. Paxman relates how an ambitious environmental agenda supported by the Administration and many members of the 103d Congress was ultimately derailed. He associates this with an apparently ever-growing interest in risk assessment.
Rapa And Risk, Dalton G. Paxman, Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette, Thomas G. Field Jr.
Rapa And Risk, Dalton G. Paxman, Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette, Thomas G. Field Jr.
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Short article prepared by members of the professional organization Risk Assessment & Policy Association (RAPA) describing the work that will be undertaken by the newly formed group.
Public Participation In Hazard Management: The Use Of Citizen Panels In The U.S., Ortwin Renn, Thomas Webler, Branden B. Johnson
Public Participation In Hazard Management: The Use Of Citizen Panels In The U.S., Ortwin Renn, Thomas Webler, Branden B. Johnson
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
After discussing the need for citizen participation in Risk management and a method of facilitating such participation as developed in Germany, the authors discuss and analyze its subsequent modification and use in a sewage sludge management project in New Jersey.
Recognizing Risks And Paying For Risk Reduction, Gary W. Johnson
Recognizing Risks And Paying For Risk Reduction, Gary W. Johnson
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Inspired by a recent report of EPA's Science Advisory Board, Mr. Johnson argues that it is imperative that we set regulatory priorities lest we invest available resources in reducing Risks that are lower than others that might instead be addressed.
Scientific Method, Anti-Foundationalism, And Public Decision-Making, Kristin Shrader-Frechette
Scientific Method, Anti-Foundationalism, And Public Decision-Making, Kristin Shrader-Frechette
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
An examination of the legitimacy of attacks on lay assessments of environmental or other technological Risk. The case is made that rational policy requires an epistemology in which what we believe about Risk is bootstrapped onto how we should act concerning Risk.