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Technological risk

Title
Technological risk / H.W. Lewis.
Author
Lewis, H. W. (Harold Warren)
Publication
New York : W.W. Norton, ©1990.

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Book/TextUse in library T174.5 .L48 1990Off-site

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Description
xiii, 353 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
The best and the latest scientific information on carcinogens and the greenhouse effect is covered as well as highway safety, air travel risk, nuclear power, and acid rain. Author's abstract.
Subject
  • Technology > Risk assessment
  • Risk
  • Technology
  • Risk
  • Technology
  • Risques technologiques
  • Technology > Risk assessment
  • Risico's
  • Technologie
  • Milieuverontreiniging
  • Kernenergie
  • Etats-Unis d'Amérique
Note
  • Includes index.
Contents
1.The Risks of Life -- 2. The Measurement of Risk -- 3. The Perception of Risk -- 4. The Politics of Risk -- 5. The Assessment of Risk -- 6. The Management of Risk -- 7. The Value of Life -- 8. How Safe is Safe Enough -- 9. Uncertainty, Causality, Detectability -- 10. The Delusion of Conservatism -- 11. Toxic Chemicals -- 12. Chemical Carcinogenesis -- 13. Highway Safety -- 14. Air Transportation -- 15. Ionizing Radiation -- 16. Fossil Fuels -- 17. Nuclear Winter -- 18. Non-Ionizing Radiation -- 19. Just Enough Statistics and Probability -- 20. Epilogue: What Does It all Mean?
ISBN
  • 0393028836
  • 9780393028836
LCCN
90030460
OCLC
  • ocm21040151
  • 21040151
  • SCSB-1911872
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library