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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... assumptions about what gets reported, and how. One of the easiest ways to win the hearts of a technical audience such as this one is to move into vigorous denunciations, railing at the irresponsibility of the reporters and the ignorance ...
... assumptions about what gets reported, and how. One of the easiest ways to win the hearts of a technical audience such as this one is to move into vigorous denunciations, railing at the irresponsibility of the reporters and the ignorance ...
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... assumptions about the scientific and technological advances of the past century is that those of us who live today “know more” than did our great-great-grandparents. Collectively, of course, that is true. Individually, however, to note ...
... assumptions about the scientific and technological advances of the past century is that those of us who live today “know more” than did our great-great-grandparents. Collectively, of course, that is true. Individually, however, to note ...
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... assumptions or default involves a value judgment . Because the world , nation , state , locality , or even two professionals can have different value systems , the place of value judgments in environmental risk decision making is ...
... assumptions or default involves a value judgment . Because the world , nation , state , locality , or even two professionals can have different value systems , the place of value judgments in environmental risk decision making is ...
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... assumption is accepted as scientific fact. He states that scientists have a responsibility to separate fact from value judgments. 6 That we are unwilling to experiment on humans but do so on animals is a value judgment that places other ...
... assumption is accepted as scientific fact. He states that scientists have a responsibility to separate fact from value judgments. 6 That we are unwilling to experiment on humans but do so on animals is a value judgment that places other ...
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... assumptions to complete the analysis — the choices are value laden . One clearly value - laden decision is what is an acceptable risk ? Or what is a safe level ? Each of us has different levels of risk that we would find acceptable ...
... assumptions to complete the analysis — the choices are value laden . One clearly value - laden decision is what is an acceptable risk ? Or what is a safe level ? Each of us has different levels of risk that we would find acceptable ...
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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