Handbook for Environmental Risk Decision Making: Values, Perceptions, and EthicsC. Richard Cothern This handbook describes the broad aspects of risk management involving scientific policy judgment, uncertainty analysis, perception considerations, statistical insights, and strategic thinking. This book presents all the important concepts to enable the reader to "see the big picture." This ability is extremely important - it allows the decision ma |
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... ethics, and perceptions in decision models. The hypothesis is that these characteristics are directly involved in current risk decisions, but that existing ... environmental ethic One overall objective is to use the value of honesty.
... ethics, and perceptions in decision models. The hypothesis is that these characteristics are directly involved in current risk decisions, but that existing ... environmental ethic One overall objective is to use the value of honesty.
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Values, Perceptions, and Ethics C. Richard Cothern. The. Editor. C. Richard Cothern, Ph.D., is presently with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Center for Environmental Statistics Development Staff. He has served as the Executive ...
Values, Perceptions, and Ethics C. Richard Cothern. The. Editor. C. Richard Cothern, Ph.D., is presently with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Center for Environmental Statistics Development Staff. He has served as the Executive ...
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... Environmental Risk Conflicts in a World of Science, Values, and Blind Spots William R. Freudenburg Section II ... Ethics in Decision Making P. J. (Bert) Hakkinen and Carolyn J. Leep 6. Regulating and Managing Risk: Impact of ...
... Environmental Risk Conflicts in a World of Science, Values, and Blind Spots William R. Freudenburg Section II ... Ethics in Decision Making P. J. (Bert) Hakkinen and Carolyn J. Leep 6. Regulating and Managing Risk: Impact of ...
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... ethics with the views of an ecologist. Doing so is a conscious value judgment. The importance of values and ethics is seldom discussed during ecological debates. This discussion is an empirical observation about the way judgments are ...
... ethics with the views of an ecologist. Doing so is a conscious value judgment. The importance of values and ethics is seldom discussed during ecological debates. This discussion is an empirical observation about the way judgments are ...
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Values, Perceptions, and Ethics C. Richard Cothern. maintain a high level of human health you must invest in the environment. For example, look at Eastern Europe. It is a false argument to play ecological health and human health against ...
Values, Perceptions, and Ethics C. Richard Cothern. maintain a high level of human health you must invest in the environment. For example, look at Eastern Europe. It is a false argument to play ecological health and human health against ...
Contents
Introduction to Issues in Environmental Risk Decision Making | |
Impact of Subjectivity on Objectivity | |
Rediscovering the Role of Public Health in Environmental Decision Making | |
Telling the Public the Facts or the Probable Facts About Risks | |
The Urgent Need to Integrate Ethical Considerations into Risk Assessment Procedures | |
Moral Values in Risk Decisions | |
Values and Comparative Risk Assessment | |
Combining Data on Value Judgments | |
Ethical Theory and the Demands of Sustainability | |
Value Judgments Involved in Verifying and Validating Risk Assessment Models | |
The Stewardship Ethic Resolving the Environmental Dilemma | |
Introduction to the Commentary Section | |
Origin and Development | |
Balancing Risks Costs and Benefits Fairly Across | |
Introduction to Quantitative Issues | |
Environmental Ethics and Human Values | |
Index | |
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Handbook for Environmental Risk Decision Making: Values, Perceptions and Ethics C. Richard Cothern No preview available - 1995 |
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