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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... example, many animal rights groups object to the use of animals in toxicological testing on ethical and moral grounds. The AMA and other scientific groups have mounted a response that argues that many human lives have been saved (life ...
... example, many animal rights groups object to the use of animals in toxicological testing on ethical and moral grounds. The AMA and other scientific groups have mounted a response that argues that many human lives have been saved (life ...
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... example, look at Eastern Europe. It is a false argument to play ecological health and human health against each other. The first thing you must deal with in addressing environmental issues is social perception — the values involved ...
... example, look at Eastern Europe. It is a false argument to play ecological health and human health against each other. The first thing you must deal with in addressing environmental issues is social perception — the values involved ...
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... example of overemphasizing pristine ecological conditions? Any analysis of chlorine compounds and their ecological health effects involves risk assessment. When we first got into the area of ecological risk assessment, the thought was ...
... example of overemphasizing pristine ecological conditions? Any analysis of chlorine compounds and their ecological health effects involves risk assessment. When we first got into the area of ecological risk assessment, the thought was ...
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... example : back in the 1950s the sea lamprey virtually wiped out the lake trout in the Great Lakes . The fish stocks have been restored by decisions of the states and Canadian provinces . Michigan not only put back lake trout , but put ...
... example : back in the 1950s the sea lamprey virtually wiped out the lake trout in the Great Lakes . The fish stocks have been restored by decisions of the states and Canadian provinces . Michigan not only put back lake trout , but put ...
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... example of the question of how safe is “safe enough” — or to paraphrase Rayner and Cantor, “How safe is fair enough?” 5 — our answers may very well depend on obvious if nonscientific factors, such as whether we are neighborhood parents ...
... example of the question of how safe is “safe enough” — or to paraphrase Rayner and Cantor, “How safe is fair enough?” 5 — our answers may very well depend on obvious if nonscientific factors, such as whether we are neighborhood parents ...
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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