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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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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

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