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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... understand this and include it in any analysis that hopes to contribute to understanding in this area. Any analysis must include values such as safety, equity, fairness, and justice — as well as feelings such as fear, anger, and ...
... understand this and include it in any analysis that hopes to contribute to understanding in this area. Any analysis must include values such as safety, equity, fairness, and justice — as well as feelings such as fear, anger, and ...
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... understand how difficult and indeterminate the process may be. It should also make them demand to know the biases as well as the expertise of those making decisions. By being completely honest with the media and the public, we are.
... understand how difficult and indeterminate the process may be. It should also make them demand to know the biases as well as the expertise of those making decisions. By being completely honest with the media and the public, we are.
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... understand the distinction. Table 1 Ecological Rankings Habitat alteration/destruction Species extinction Stratospheric ozone depletion Global climate change Herbicides and pesticides Toxics, nutrients, BOD in water Acid deposition ...
... understand the distinction. Table 1 Ecological Rankings Habitat alteration/destruction Species extinction Stratospheric ozone depletion Global climate change Herbicides and pesticides Toxics, nutrients, BOD in water Acid deposition ...
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... understand the role of science , values , and blind spots in making decisions about environmental risks . The questions , which I shall consider in order , are as follows . What is the sound of one fact speaking ? How do we see what it ...
... understand the role of science , values , and blind spots in making decisions about environmental risks . The questions , which I shall consider in order , are as follows . What is the sound of one fact speaking ? How do we see what it ...
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... understand how powerfully our view of the world can be shaped by the spot from which we do our viewing - the risk of being prisoners of our own perspectives . Sometimes the limitations on our vision do come from our values , which lead ...
... understand how powerfully our view of the world can be shaped by the spot from which we do our viewing - the risk of being prisoners of our own perspectives . Sometimes the limitations on our vision do come from our values , which lead ...
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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