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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... social values, land use, economic issues, property rights, expectations, and all the human values to determine trade-offs between ecological balance and social opportunity. It is easier for the ecologist to rationally balance ecological ...
... social values, land use, economic issues, property rights, expectations, and all the human values to determine trade-offs between ecological balance and social opportunity. It is easier for the ecologist to rationally balance ecological ...
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... social problems like schools, housing, and the poor? You are out in the real world and if you value human life, then perhaps it is better to focus on problems like alcohol, tobacco, diet, and automobiles. Here the −2 mortality rates ...
... social problems like schools, housing, and the poor? You are out in the real world and if you value human life, then perhaps it is better to focus on problems like alcohol, tobacco, diet, and automobiles. Here the −2 mortality rates ...
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... social values of any lake in North America. It was one of the more popular sport fishing lakes in the country — very productive, very shallow, and very warm, with walleyed pike, yellow perch, northern pike, white perch, blue pike — a ...
... social values of any lake in North America. It was one of the more popular sport fishing lakes in the country — very productive, very shallow, and very warm, with walleyed pike, yellow perch, northern pike, white perch, blue pike — a ...
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... social utility . In the same way , with most of the pollution events that have happened over the years , the impacts have not been ecological ; they have been economic . Even with Kepone in the James River , all the basic stocks of fish ...
... social utility . In the same way , with most of the pollution events that have happened over the years , the impacts have not been ecological ; they have been economic . Even with Kepone in the James River , all the basic stocks of fish ...
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... social constructivists , " as they are called , have sometimes seemed , at least to their critics , to be arguing that the facts do not matter at all . They , of course , have then accused their critics of claiming that the social ...
... social constructivists , " as they are called , have sometimes seemed , at least to their critics , to be arguing that the facts do not matter at all . They , of course , have then accused their critics of claiming that the social ...
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 |
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