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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... University of Maryland's University College and an Associate Professorial Lecturer in the Chemistry Department of the ... University of Manitoba. Richard N.L. Andrews Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering University.
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... University Washington, D.C. Kristin Shrader-Frechette Environmental Sciences and Policy Program and Department of Philosophy University of South Florida Tampa, Florida Table of Contents Section I: INTRODUCTION 1. Values and Value.
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... University Professor Charles Perrow, is that an expert is “a person who can solve a problem better or faster than others, but who runs a higher risk than others of posing the wrong problem.” 14 For deciding on value-based questions ...
... University Professor Charles Perrow, is that an expert is “a person who can solve a problem better or faster than others, but who runs a higher risk than others of posing the wrong problem.” 14 For deciding on value-based questions ...
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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