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Challenges in risk assessment and risk management
- Title
- Challenges in risk assessment and risk management / special editors of this volume, Howard Kunreuther, Paul Slovic.
- Publication
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, ©1996.
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- Description
- 220 pages; 24 cm
- Series Statement
- Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 0002-7162 ; v. 545
- Uniform Title
- Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science ; v. 545.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Note
- "May 1996."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- How risks are identified and assessed -- Government risk regulation -- Scientific uncertainty and the political process -- Risky thinking: irrational fears about risk and society -- Valuing risks to the environment -- Risk and the human environment -- Public values in risk research -- Three phases in the evolution of risk communication practice -- The social amplification and attenuation of risk -- Hazard communication: warnings and risk -- Science, values, and risk -- The role of values in risk management -- rethinking risk management in the federal government -- The risk management dilemma -- Risk and justice: rethinking the concept of compensation -- Reforming risk regulation -- Risk and the legal system.
- ISBN
- 0761902988
- 9780761902980
- 076190297X
- 9780761902973
- LCCN
- 95071933
- OCLC
- ocm34626276
- 34626276
- SCSB-359236
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library