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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... 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 objective and subjective elements into ...
... 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 objective and subjective elements into ...
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... Studies Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina William R. Freudenburg Department of Rural Sociology University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin Jennifer Grund PRC ...
... Studies Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina William R. Freudenburg Department of Rural Sociology University of Wisconsin Madison, Wisconsin Jennifer Grund PRC ...
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... studies have found that answers about the acceptability of environmental risks can depend on factors that would to be irrelevant if the decisions were merely factual, such as the specific discipline of training, or whether the ...
... studies have found that answers about the acceptability of environmental risks can depend on factors that would to be irrelevant if the decisions were merely factual, such as the specific discipline of training, or whether the ...
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... studies of the ability to assess probabilities accurately 20,21 - the problem of calibration - have found that calibration is unaffected by differences in intelligence or expertise , 22 while there is some evidence that 19 23 errors ...
... studies of the ability to assess probabilities accurately 20,21 - the problem of calibration - have found that calibration is unaffected by differences in intelligence or expertise , 22 while there is some evidence that 19 23 errors ...
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... studies, it is more common to find a “surprise index” on the order of 20 to 40%. 21,24,25 In general, scientists can be expected to do a reasonably good job of “predicting” something that is already familiar, but we are much less ...
... studies, it is more common to find a “surprise index” on the order of 20 to 40%. 21,24,25 In general, scientists can be expected to do a reasonably good job of “predicting” something that is already familiar, but we are much less ...
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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