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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... cost assessments, and feasibility studies 2. To examine current environmental decisions to determine the role values and value judgments play in the process 3. To develop approaches and methodologies that can involve the so-called ...
... cost assessments, and feasibility studies 2. To examine current environmental decisions to determine the role values and value judgments play in the process 3. To develop approaches and methodologies that can involve the so-called ...
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... Costs, and Benefits Fairly Across Generations Bayard L. Catron, Lawrence G. Boyer, Jennifer Grund, and John Hartung Section III: VALUES AND VALUE JUDGMENTS 11. Introduction to Quantitative Issues David W. Schnare 12. Ecological Risk ...
... Costs, and Benefits Fairly Across Generations Bayard L. Catron, Lawrence G. Boyer, Jennifer Grund, and John Hartung Section III: VALUES AND VALUE JUDGMENTS 11. Introduction to Quantitative Issues David W. Schnare 12. Ecological Risk ...
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... costs are. If you are a conservationist and your major value in life is to protect “dickey birds” you might take the ... cost is. If you accept this as a level of protection, then when do you stop spending money on the mitigation ...
... costs are. If you are a conservationist and your major value in life is to protect “dickey birds” you might take the ... cost is. If you accept this as a level of protection, then when do you stop spending money on the mitigation ...
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... cost. That is the kind of balancing act that we are involved in right now, and if you expect either extreme you will have trouble. A couple of quick scenario examples of what I mean by trade-offs follow. Remember back in the late 1950s ...
... cost. That is the kind of balancing act that we are involved in right now, and if you expect either extreme you will have trouble. A couple of quick scenario examples of what I mean by trade-offs follow. Remember back in the late 1950s ...
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... cost — a cost of substantially increased vulnerability to the risks of interdependence. This point is summarized in Figure 1, which illustrates “The Technological Risk Crossover.” Using a very simple index of interdependence, based on ...
... cost — a cost of substantially increased vulnerability to the risks of interdependence. This point is summarized in Figure 1, which illustrates “The Technological Risk Crossover.” Using a very simple index of interdependence, based on ...
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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