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Risk evaluation and management

Title
Risk evaluation and management / edited by Vincent T. Covello and Joshua Menkes and Jeryl Mumpower.
Publication
New York : Plenum Press, ©1986.

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Additional Authors
  • Covello, Vincent T.
  • Menkes, Joshua.
  • Mumpower, Jeryl, 1949-
Description
xi, 544 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.
Series Statement
Contemporary issues in risk analysis ; v. 1
Uniform Title
Contemporary issues in risk analysis ; v. 1.
Subject
  • Technology > Risk assessment
  • Risk assessment
  • Technology assessment
  • Risk
  • Risk Assessment
  • Risk
  • risk assessment
  • Technology assessment
  • Risk assessment
  • Technology > Risk assessment
  • Risikoanalyse
  • Risikomanagement
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Risk management
  • Risk perception
  • Risques pour la santé
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies and index.
Contents
I. Public perceptions of risk -- The psychometric study of risk perception / Paul Slovic, Baruch Fischhoff, Sarah Lichtenstein -- Public perceptions of technological risk : a methodological study / Donald R. DeLuca, Jan A.J. Stolwijk, Wendy Horowitz -- Public disputes about risky technologies : stakeholders and arenas / Ward Edwards and Detlof von Winterfeldt -- Contemporary worldviews and perception of the technological system / David M. Buss, Kenneth H. Craik, Karl M. Dake -- Risk, relativism, and rationality / Marx W. Wartofsky -- II. Risk evaluation methods -- Methods for comparing the risks of technologies / Edward W. Lawless, Martin V. Jones, Richard M. Jones -- Comparative analysis of formal decision-making approaches / Miley W. Merkhofer -- Measuring risk attitudes in risk analysis / James S. Dyer and Rakesh K. Sarin -- Analysis of risks of fatalities / Ralph L. Keeney -- Methods for analyzing and comparing technological hazards / C. Hohenemser [and others] -- Risk-cost-benefit methodology and equal protection / Kristin Shrader-Frechette -- Improving risk analysis / R. Talbot Page and John A. Ferejohn -- Risk evaluation : a review of the literature / Lloyd L. Philipson -- III. Risk management -- Alternatives to government regulation for the management of technological risks / Michael S. Baram and J. Raymond Miyares -- Alternative risk management policies for state and local governmnets / David Okrent -- Institutional mechanisms for converting sporadic agency decisions into systematic risk management strategies : OSHA, the Supreme Court, and the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia / Arthur Oleinick, Lynn D. Disney, Karen S. East -- The political and institutional setting for risk analysis / Michael E. Kraft -- The management of risk / Rae Zimmerman -- Approaches to risk management : a critique / Lester B. Lave -- Consent and the justification of risk analysis / Douglas MacLean -- IV. Overview of risk evaluation management -- Science and analysis : roles in risk and decision making / John D. Graham, Howard Raiffa, James W. Vaupel -- Risk analysis and risk management : a historical perspective / Vincent T. Covello and Jeryl Mumpower.
ISBN
  • 0306419785
  • 9780306419782
LCCN
86004895
OCLC
  • ocm13269164
  • 13269164
  • SCSB-1156993
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library