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 maker or strategic environmental planner to understand and cope with a wide variety of complex and interlinked pieces of information and data. The text presents environmental problems and, whenever applicable, the methodology required to reach a successful solution. Decisions and policies are examined. The book covers numerous objective and subjective components of environmental risk decision making. It details quantitative and comparative risk, and investigates the cost and feasibility of different decisions. Social pressures, safety, and political, religious, ethical, and psychological issues are addressed. How to evaluate the potential impact on the quality of life also is discussed. Any company doing risk assessment, risk management, or risk communication, as well as those doing environmental decision making will find this reference to be invaluable. It is also suitable as a text for courses in environmental management, environmental science, and risk assessment in the areas of risk management and strategic environmental planning. |
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... responsibility for the validity of all materials or for the consequences of their use . Neither this book nor any part may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means , electronic or mechanical , including photocopying ...
... responsibility for the validity of all materials or for the consequences of their use . Neither this book nor any part may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means , electronic or mechanical , including photocopying ...
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... Responsibilities of Chemists Hon . Mike McCormack 349 26. Global Bioethics : Origin and Development 359 Van R. Potter Section V : SUMMARY 375 27. Ethics and Values in Environmental Risk Assessment - A Synthesis Bayard L. Catron The ...
... Responsibilities of Chemists Hon . Mike McCormack 349 26. Global Bioethics : Origin and Development 359 Van R. Potter Section V : SUMMARY 375 27. Ethics and Values in Environmental Risk Assessment - A Synthesis Bayard L. Catron The ...
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... responsibility . Despite these individual - level characteristics , however , a growing body of work 65-75'76-94-95 suggests that the organizational - level characteristics of techno- logical institutions may be parts of the problem ...
... responsibility . Despite these individual - level characteristics , however , a growing body of work 65-75'76-94-95 suggests that the organizational - level characteristics of techno- logical institutions may be parts of the problem ...
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... responsibility for allowing the shuttle launch was vested in an engineer , not a politician , for reasons you can easily imagine . That engineer's technical people had ex- pressed concerns to him about the integrity of O - ring seals at ...
... responsibility for allowing the shuttle launch was vested in an engineer , not a politician , for reasons you can easily imagine . That engineer's technical people had ex- pressed concerns to him about the integrity of O - ring seals at ...
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... responsibility to select the path by which we decide to move forward . In recent years , the direction that has often been chosen , particularly by those who claim and may genuinely believe that they have the best interests of the ...
... responsibility to select the path by which we decide to move forward . In recent years , the direction that has often been chosen , particularly by those who claim and may genuinely believe that they have the best interests of the ...
Contents
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ISSUES IN ENVIRONMENTAL | 37 |
Introduction to Issues | 71 |
Rediscovering the Role | 93 |
Telling the Public the Facts | 103 |
Moral Values in Risk Decisions | 195 |
Values and Comparative Risk Assessment | 213 |
The Ethical Basis of Environmental Risk Analysis | 255 |
Value Judgments Involved in Verifying | 265 |
Ethical Theory and the Demands of Sustainability | 267 |
Science | 279 |
The Stewardship Ethic | 311 |
Introduction to the Commentary Section | 335 |
The Urgent Need to Integrate Ethical | 115 |
Balancing | 131 |
VALUES AND VALUE JUDGMENTS | 149 |
Environmental Ethics and Human Values | 177 |
The Citizenship Responsibilities of Chemists | 349 |
Ethics and Values in Environmental | 377 |
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