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Title

Worst things first? : the debate over risk-based national environmental priorities / edited by Adam M. Finkel and Dominic Golding.

Publication

Washington, DC : Resources for the Future, c1994.

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Additional Authors

• Finkel, Adam M.
• Golding, Dominic.

Description

xiv, 348 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Mark Perlbinder

Subject

• Environmental risk assessment > United States > Congresses
• Environmental policy > United States > Congresses

Note

• Papers presented at a conference held from November 15 to 17, 1992, in Annapolis, Maryland.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Should we-and can we-reduce the worst risks first? / Adam M. Finkel -- Rationalism and redemocratization: time for a truce / Alice M. Rivlin -- EPA's vision for setting national environmental priorities / F. Henry Habicht II -- An overview of risk-based priority setting at EPA / Charles W. Kent, Frederick W. Allen -- Integrating science, values, and democracy through comparative risk asessment / Jonathan Lash -- A proposal to address, rather than rank, environmental problems / Mary O'Brien --
• Current priority-setting methodology: too little rationality or too much? / Dale Hattis, Robert L. Goble -- Quantitative risk ranking: more promise than the critics suggest / M. Granger Morgan -- Paradigms, process, and politics: risk and regulatory design / Donald T. Hornstein -- Is reducing risk the real objective of risk management? / Richard B. Belzer - State concerns in setting environmental priorities: is the risk-based paradigm the best we can do? / Victoria J. Tschinkel -- The states: the national laboratory for the risk-based paradigm? / G. Tracy Mehan III --
• Working group discussions / Adam M. Finkel, Dominic Golding -- Pollution prevention: putting comparative risk assessment in its place / Barry Commoner -- Hammers don't cut wood: why we need pollution prevention and comparative risk assessment / John D. Graham -- Unequal environmental protection: incorporating environmental justice in decision making / Robert D. Bullard -- Risk-based priorities and environmental justice / Albert L. Nichols -- An innovation-based strategy for the environment / Nicholas A. Ashford -- Promoting innovation "the easy way" / James D. Wilson --
• Summary of closing panel discussion / Adam M. Finkel, Dominic Golding -- Recurring themes and points of contention / Adam M. Finkel, Dominic Golding -- Afterthoughts / Adam M. Finkel.

Call Number

JFE 96-9401

ISBN

0915707748 (alk. paper)

LCCN

94021738

OCLC

30665296

Title

Worst things first? : the debate over risk-based national environmental priorities / edited by Adam M. Finkel and Dominic Golding.

Imprint

Washington, DC : Resources for the Future, c1994.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Finkel, Adam M.

Golding, Dominic.

Research Call Number

JFE 96-9401