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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... approaches and methodologies that can involve the so-called objective and subjective elements into a balanced process for making environmental risk decisions 4. Looking for what the options are, determine how to balance all the ...
... approaches and methodologies that can involve the so-called objective and subjective elements into a balanced process for making environmental risk decisions 4. Looking for what the options are, determine how to balance all the ...
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... approach set marine biology back about 100 years in its lack of common sense. About halfway through that week, I got a phone call from our local newspaper reporter requesting a quote. I replied, “Any whales caught up in the ice are so ...
... approach set marine biology back about 100 years in its lack of common sense. About halfway through that week, I got a phone call from our local newspaper reporter requesting a quote. I replied, “Any whales caught up in the ice are so ...
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... approach. However, from a scientific view this is wrong. It is wrong because you cannot protect an individual in the wildlife population. The human health risk assessment model puts a value on an individual life; but in nature, the ...
... approach. However, from a scientific view this is wrong. It is wrong because you cannot protect an individual in the wildlife population. The human health risk assessment model puts a value on an individual life; but in nature, the ...
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... approaches that have long been sought for the underlying technical questions. One sign of the degree of change is that philosophers and sociologists have been invited to offer keynote addresses to the annual meetings of the American ...
... approaches that have long been sought for the underlying technical questions. One sign of the degree of change is that philosophers and sociologists have been invited to offer keynote addresses to the annual meetings of the American ...
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... approach can win the hearts of a scientific audience, it has very little to do with the minds. Instead, as is often the case in the physical or biological sciences, empirical findings in the social sciences often show a stubborn refusal ...
... approach can win the hearts of a scientific audience, it has very little to do with the minds. Instead, as is often the case in the physical or biological sciences, empirical findings in the social sciences often show a stubborn refusal ...
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 |
Handbook for Environmental Risk Decision Making: Values, Perceptions, and Ethics C. Richard Cothern No preview available - 2019 |
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