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The Challenge And Opportunity Of Recovering Wolf Populations, L. David Mech Apr 1995

The Challenge And Opportunity Of Recovering Wolf Populations, L. David Mech

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

The gray wolf once inhabited a wide variety of habitats throughout most of the northern hemisphere north of 20°N latitude. Because the animal preyed on livestock and competed with humans for wild prey, it was extirpated from much of its range outside of wilderness areas. Environmental awareness in the late 1960s brought for the wolf legal protection, increased research, and favorable media coverage. The species has increased in both Europe and North America, is beginning to reoccupy semiwilderness and agricultural land, and is causing increased damage to livestock. Because of the wolfs high reproductive rate and long dispersal tendencies, the …

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Table Of Contents Volume Six, Number Two, Spring 1995, Risk Editorial Board Mar 1995

Table Of Contents Volume Six, Number Two, Spring 1995, Risk Editorial Board

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Table of contents for the journal RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (ISSN: 1073-8673)

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Coping With Phantom Risks In The Courts, Peter W. Huber Mar 1995

Coping With Phantom Risks In The Courts, Peter W. Huber

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Dr. Huber describes "phantom" risks as those tending to hover indefinitely, never to crystallize. He argues that legal procedures should optimally lead' to closure and eliminate unwarranted fears.

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Resolving Medical Controversies, Itzhak Jacoby Mar 1995

Resolving Medical Controversies, Itzhak Jacoby

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Dr. Jacoby explains why emerging technologies must be evaluated expeditiously. He also argues that an approach closely following "Science Court" tenets would more uniformly guide practitioners and insurers.

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Program - Which Scientist Do You Believe - Process Alternatives In Technological Controversies, Risk Editorial Board Mar 1995

Program - Which Scientist Do You Believe - Process Alternatives In Technological Controversies, Risk Editorial Board

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Program of events and list of registered attendees for the October 6, 1994 conference Which Scientist Do You Believe? Process Alternatives in Technological Controversies held in Concord, NH.

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Resolving Technological Controversies In Regulatory Agencies, Sidney A. Shapiro Mar 1995

Resolving Technological Controversies In Regulatory Agencies, Sidney A. Shapiro

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Professor Shapiro notes that, e.g., advisory committees may increase technical accuracy at the price of delaying already slow rule making and urges Congress and the courts to provide agencies with broad procedural discretion.

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Congressional Risk Proposals, Dalton G. Paxman Mar 1995

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.

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Alternative Dispute Resolution In Patent Controversies, Norman L. Balmer Mar 1995

Alternative Dispute Resolution In Patent Controversies, Norman L. Balmer

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Mr. Balmer relates how ADR allows attorneys to tailor rules to resolve disputes in light of, e.g., party relationships and internal dynamics. He notes that, for life to go on, having resolution is itself an important goal.

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The Regulatory Reform Recommendations Of The National Performance Review, Jeffrey S. Lubbers Mar 1995

The Regulatory Reform Recommendations Of The National Performance Review, Jeffrey S. Lubbers

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Of ten recommendations Mr. Lubbers discusses, several were of particular interest. These include encouraging consensus-based rule making and ADR in enforcement, as well as ranking risks and improving regulatory science.

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Review Of: Dorothy J. Howell, Scientific Literacy And Environmental Policy- The Missing Prerequisite For Sound Decision Making (Quorum Books 1992), Diane M. Albert Mar 1995

Review Of: Dorothy J. Howell, Scientific Literacy And Environmental Policy- The Missing Prerequisite For Sound Decision Making (Quorum Books 1992), Diane M. Albert

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Review of: Dorothy J. Howell, Scientific Literacy and Environmental Policy- The Missing Prerequisite for Sound Decision Making (Quorum Books 1992). Acknowledgements, bibliography, epilogue, index, introduction. LC 91- 36028; ISBN 0-89930-616-0. [181 pp. Cloth $45.00. One Madison Ave., New York, NY 10010.1

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Review Of: Dorothy J. Howell, Ecology For Environmental Professionals (Quorum Books 1994), Karla Sievers Mcmanus Mar 1995

Review Of: Dorothy J. Howell, Ecology For Environmental Professionals (Quorum Books 1994), Karla Sievers Mcmanus

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Review of: Dorothy J. Howell, Ecology for Environmental Professionals (Quorum Books 1994). Appendices, bibliographical references, figures, glossary, index, preface, tables. LC 93-5580; ISBN 0-89930-745-0 [215 pp. Cloth $59.95. 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881.]

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Indicating Acts During Counting By A Chimpanzee (Pan Troglodytes), Sarah T. Boysen, Gary G. Berntson, Traci A. Shreyer, Michelle B. Hannan Mar 1995

Indicating Acts During Counting By A Chimpanzee (Pan Troglodytes), Sarah T. Boysen, Gary G. Berntson, Traci A. Shreyer, Michelle B. Hannan

Sentience Collection

A chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) experienced in counting arrays of 0-7 items and trained for comprehension of number symbols, spontaneously displayed a variety of indicating acts (e.g., pointing, touching, and rearranging items) during counting. Twenty-five sessions were videotaped, and all trials were evaluated for the relations among number of items presented, number of indicating acts displayed, and the Arabic number selected to represent the array. Significant correlations included the relations between number of items and the cardinal number selected by the animal, between the number of items and indicating acts displayed by the chimpanzee, and between the number of indicating acts …

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Wildlife Wins At The Polls Mar 1995

Wildlife Wins At The Polls

Close Up Reports

No abstract provided.

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Draft Report Of The South Coast Estuarine Fishery Working Group, South Coast Estuarine Fishery Workng Group Mar 1995

Draft Report Of The South Coast Estuarine Fishery Working Group, South Coast Estuarine Fishery Workng Group

Fisheries Management Papers

The South Coast Estuarine Working Group was established in 1991 at the request of commercial fishermen by the Minister of the day. This report outlines a draft management plan for the South Coast Estuarine fishery that was made available for public comment.

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Which Scientist Do You Believe - Process Alternatives In Technological Controversies, Thomas G. Field Jr. Mar 1995

Which Scientist Do You Believe - Process Alternatives In Technological Controversies, Thomas G. Field Jr.

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Beyond introducing these papers, Professor Field argues that those designing processes for tasks originally contemplated by the Science Court proposal should closely consider, e.g., intervening experience with alternative dispute resolution.

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Analyzing Correlations Of Three Types In Selected Lines Of Drosophila Melanogaster That Have Evolved Stable Extreme Geotactic Performance, Scott F. Stoltenberg, Jerry Hirsch, Stewart H. Berlocher Mar 1995

Analyzing Correlations Of Three Types In Selected Lines Of Drosophila Melanogaster That Have Evolved Stable Extreme Geotactic Performance, Scott F. Stoltenberg, Jerry Hirsch, Stewart H. Berlocher

Department of Psychology: Faculty Publications

The behavior-genetic analysis of Drosophila melanogaster with geotactic performance as the phenotype is an ideal model system with which to investigate the complex relations between heredity and behavior. As part of a long-term, 38-year study, we report 4 experiments that identify and analyze trait correlations in the selected high- and low-geotaxis lines. We performed F2 correlational analyses and backcrosses to examine 3 types of correlations: (a) genotype-genotype (alcohol dehydrogenase [Adh]-amylase [Amy]), (b) genotype-phenotype (Adh and Amy-geotaxis), and (c) phenotype-phenotype (mate preference–geotaxis). Only the Adh-geotaxis correlation survived meiosis and reappeared in the F …

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Glenn Petersen's Review Of Vincent Lebot, Mark Merlin, And Lamont Lindstrom's Kava: The Pacific Drug, Glenn Petersen Mar 1995

Glenn Petersen's Review Of Vincent Lebot, Mark Merlin, And Lamont Lindstrom's Kava: The Pacific Drug, Glenn Petersen

Pacific Studies

No abstract provided.

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Rapa And Risk, Dalton G. Paxman, Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette, Thomas G. Field Jr. Mar 1995

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.

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Evaluating The Expertise Of Experts, Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette Mar 1995

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.

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The Separation Of Facts And Values, Arthur Kantrowitz Mar 1995

The Separation Of Facts And Values, Arthur Kantrowitz

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Dr. Kantrowitz maintains that much modern pessimism derives from failure to separate what is from what ought to be and urges that scientific conflicts be resolved as value neutrally as possible.

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Implications Of Native Title Legislation For Fisheries Management And The Fishing Industry In Western Australia, Patricia Summerfield Feb 1995

Implications Of Native Title Legislation For Fisheries Management And The Fishing Industry In Western Australia, Patricia Summerfield

Fisheries Management Papers

This paper seeks to examine the key issues of both State and Commonwealth native title legislation for the fishing industry and fisheries management in Western Australia. Considerations for Aboriginal involvement in the industry and long-standing as well as recent concessionary arrangements for traditional usage of fish resources are examined. Industry reactions and future plans to accommodate native title in a positive framework are explored.

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Addressing Problems In Evaluating Health-Relevant Programs Through Systematic Planning And Evaluation, Galen E. Cole, Chester L. Pogostin, Bonita J. Westover, Nilka M. Rios Jan 1995

Addressing Problems In Evaluating Health-Relevant Programs Through Systematic Planning And Evaluation, Galen E. Cole, Chester L. Pogostin, Bonita J. Westover, Nilka M. Rios

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

The authors argue that inconsistent terminology is often a hindrance in assessing health program implementation, effectiveness and efficiency. Attending closely to this, they propose a model scheme for conducting such evaluations.

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European Wasps : Eradicating An Unwanted Pest, Marc Widmer, John Van Schagen Jan 1995

European Wasps : Eradicating An Unwanted Pest, Marc Widmer, John Van Schagen

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

European wasps were first found in Western Australis in 1977. Mark Widmer and John van Schagen outline the pest's life history and control progeams which are in place.

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Perceived Risks Of Emfs And Landowner Compensation, Linda J. Orel Jan 1995

Perceived Risks Of Emfs And Landowner Compensation, Linda J. Orel

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Although public concerns about EMFs may eventually prove groundless, they can nevertheless depress the market value of residential property near powerlines. Ms. Orel argues that the scientific truth, as courts increasingly recognize, should play no role in determining whether or how much landowners should recover.

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Getting Through The Door: Threshold Procedural Considerations In Right-To-Die Litigation, Sharon F. Dipaolo Jan 1995

Getting Through The Door: Threshold Procedural Considerations In Right-To-Die Litigation, Sharon F. Dipaolo

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Ms. DiPaolo explains how judges may use mootness, ripeness and standing to avoid getting involved in right-to-die cases. She argues that this may interfere with private decision making and be counterproductive.

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A Survey Of Residual Cancer Risks Permitted By Health, Safety And Environmental Policy, March Sadowitz, John D. Graham Jan 1995

A Survey Of Residual Cancer Risks Permitted By Health, Safety And Environmental Policy, March Sadowitz, John D. Graham

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

The authors describe permitted U.S. residual cancer risks, focusing on numerical levels specifically and implicitly authorized by statute or regulation. They also discuss potential changes.

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The Greening Of Technology Transfer: A Conference Summary, William O. Hennessey Jan 1995

The Greening Of Technology Transfer: A Conference Summary, William O. Hennessey

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Dr. Hennessey briefly reports on an international conference that explored the relationship between patent and other intellectual property laws and those designed to protect the environment and maintain biodiversity.

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Senator Johnston's Proposals For Regulatory Reform: New Cost-Benefit-Risk Analysis Requirements For Epa, Linda-Jo Schierow Jan 1995

Senator Johnston's Proposals For Regulatory Reform: New Cost-Benefit-Risk Analysis Requirements For Epa, Linda-Jo Schierow

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Dr. Schierow compares provisions designed to improve the development of regulations and promulgated by Reagan and Clinton Executive Orders with those in the Johnston Amendments.

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Review Of: Lawrence J. Kaplan & Rosemarie Tong, Controlling Our Reproductive Destiny: A Technological And Philosophical Perspective, Sophie M. Sparrow Jan 1995

Review Of: Lawrence J. Kaplan & Rosemarie Tong, Controlling Our Reproductive Destiny: A Technological And Philosophical Perspective, Sophie M. Sparrow

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Review of: Lawrence J. Kaplan & Rosemarie Tong, Controlling Our Reproductive Destiny: A Technological and Philosophical Perspective (The MIT Press 1994). Appendix (basic biochemistry), illustrations, index, notes, preface, series foreword by Samuel Goldberg, tables. CIP 93-38060, ISBN 0-262-11176-4 [418 pp. Cloth $29.95. 55 Hayward St., Cambridge MA 02142.]

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Review Of: It Just Ain't Fair: The Ethics Of Health Care For African Americans (Annette Dula & Sara Goering Eds.), Carrie Anne Juliano Jan 1995

Review Of: It Just Ain't Fair: The Ethics Of Health Care For African Americans (Annette Dula & Sara Goering Eds.), Carrie Anne Juliano

RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)

Review of: It Just Ain't Fair: The Ethics of Health Care for African Americans (Annette Dula & Sara Goering eds., Praeger 1994) About the editors and contributors, acknowledgements, bibliography, foreword by Mark Siegler, index, notes. L.C. 93-43780, ISBN 0-275-94494-8. [ 336 pp. Paper $19.95. P.O. Box 5007, Westport CT 06881-5007.]

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