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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... ENVIRONMENTAL RISK DECISION MAKING? Values and ethics should be included in the environmental decisionmaking process for three reasons: they are already a major component, although unacknowledged; ignoring them causes almost ...
... ENVIRONMENTAL RISK DECISION MAKING? Values and ethics should be included in the environmental decisionmaking process for three reasons: they are already a major component, although unacknowledged; ignoring them causes almost ...
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... environmental risk decision-making process and since they are widely used, why not acknowledge this and formally include them in the models? Are the current and future environmental problems and decisions more complex and of a different ...
... environmental risk decision-making process and since they are widely used, why not acknowledge this and formally include them in the models? Are the current and future environmental problems and decisions more complex and of a different ...
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... environment, and risk assessment. He has written and edited 14 books, including such diverse topics as science and society, energy and the environment, trace substances in environmental health, lead bioavailability, environmental ...
... environment, and risk assessment. He has written and edited 14 books, including such diverse topics as science and society, energy and the environment, trace substances in environmental health, lead bioavailability, environmental ...
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... environmental risks, the consequences of a willingness to fudge a technical judgment — or a political one, as in ... Environment,” EPAJ. March/April:6–10 (1992). Perceptions are deeply rooted in our feelings and emotional being.
... environmental risks, the consequences of a willingness to fudge a technical judgment — or a political one, as in ... Environment,” EPAJ. March/April:6–10 (1992). Perceptions are deeply rooted in our feelings and emotional being.
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... Environmental Risk Decisions Perceptions (Including the Idea of Values in Quantitative Risk Assessment) General Examples Ethics Introduction What Is Ethics? Risk and Ethics Theology Environmental Ethic Decision Making Introduction ...
... Environmental Risk Decisions Perceptions (Including the Idea of Values in Quantitative Risk Assessment) General Examples Ethics Introduction What Is Ethics? Risk and Ethics Theology Environmental Ethic Decision Making Introduction ...
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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