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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... technical”. Values and ethics seem like perfectly good ways to analyze, balance, and choose in the environmental risk decision-making process and since they are widely used, why not acknowledge this and formally include them in the ...
... technical”. Values and ethics seem like perfectly good ways to analyze, balance, and choose in the environmental risk decision-making process and since they are widely used, why not acknowledge this and formally include them in the ...
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... technical questions. One sign of the degree of change is that philosophers and sociologists have been invited to offer keynote addresses to the annual meetings of the American Chemical Society. Another sign, which is at least equally ...
... technical questions. One sign of the degree of change is that philosophers and sociologists have been invited to offer keynote addresses to the annual meetings of the American Chemical Society. Another sign, which is at least equally ...
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... technical community are often heard to say something along the lines of “ the facts speak for themselves . ” Mark Twain , of course , had a different assessment . At one point , he wrote , “ figures don't lie , but liars figure . " At ...
... technical community are often heard to say something along the lines of “ the facts speak for themselves . ” Mark Twain , of course , had a different assessment . At one point , he wrote , “ figures don't lie , but liars figure . " At ...
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... technical questions to be delegated to narrow, technical experts, we also need to recognize that many of the most important questions about technology are neither narrow nor technical. The strength of the expert is in the technical ...
... technical questions to be delegated to narrow, technical experts, we also need to recognize that many of the most important questions about technology are neither narrow nor technical. The strength of the expert is in the technical ...
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... technical expertise than with whether the answer reflects “ the will of the governed . ” - It is important to recognize , however , that distortions of vision are created not just by values , but also by blind spots - by blind spots ...
... technical expertise than with whether the answer reflects “ the will of the governed . ” - It is important to recognize , however , that distortions of vision are created not just by values , but also by blind spots - by blind spots ...
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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