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Slides: Envirofit: Making The World Fit For Humanity, Jessica Alderman
Slides: Envirofit: Making The World Fit For Humanity, Jessica Alderman
2012 Energy Justice Conference and Technology Exposition (September 17-18)
Presenter: Jessica Alderman, Director, ENVIROFIT
15 slides
Genealogies Of Risk: Searching For Safety, 1930s-1970s, William Boyd
Genealogies Of Risk: Searching For Safety, 1930s-1970s, William Boyd
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Health, safety, and environmental regulation in the United States are saturated with risk thinking. It was not always so, and it may not be so in the future. But today, the formal, quantitative approach to risk provides much of the basis for regulation in these fields, a development that seems quite natural, even necessary. This particular approach, while it drew on conceptual and technical developments that had been underway for decades, achieved prominence during a relatively short timeframe; roughly, between the mid-1970s and the early 1980s--a time of hard looks and regulatory reform. Prior to this time, formal conceptions of …