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Worst Things First : the Debate over Risk-Based National Environmental Priorities.
For any government agency, the distribution of available resources among problems or programs is crucially important. Agencies, however, typically lack a self-conscious process for examining priorities, much less an explicit method for defining what priorities should be. Worst Things First? illustra...
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2014.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; PART I: Introduction; Conference Background and Overview; 1. Should We-and Can We-Reduce the Worst Risks First?; Keynote Address; 2. Rationalism and Redemocratization: Time for a Truce; PART II: The EPA Paradigm; Framing the Debate; 3. EPA's Vision for Setting National Environmental Priorities; 4. An Overview of Risk-Based Priority Setting at EPA; 5. Integrating Science, Values, and Democracy through Comparative Risk Assessment; 6. A Proposal to Address, Rather Than Rank, Environmental Problems. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Methodological Concerns7. Current Priority-Setting Methodology: Too Little Rationality or Too Much?; 8. Quantitative Risk Ranking: More Promise Than the Critics Suggest; Procedural Concerns; 9. Paradigms, Process, and Politics: Risk and Regulatory Design; 10. Is Reducing Risk the Real Objective of Risk Management?; Implementation Concerns; 11. State Concerns in Setting Environmental Priorities: Is the Risk-Based Paradigm the Best We Can Do?; 12. The States: The National Laboratory for the Risk-Based Paradigm?; Consolidating the Discussions; 13. Working Group Discussions. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a PART III: Three Alternative ParadigmsThe Prevention Paradigm; 14. Pollution Prevention: Putting Comparative Risk Assessment in Its Place; 15. Hammers Don't Cut Wood: Why We Need Pollution Prevention and Comparative Risk Assessment; The Environmental Justice Paradigm; 16. Unequal Environmental Protection: Incorporating Environmental Justice in Decision Making; 17. Risk-Based Priorities and Environmental Justice; The Industrial Transformation Paradigm; 18. An Innovation-Based Strategy for the Environment; 19. Promoting Innovation The Easy Way -- PART IV: Conclusions. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 20. Summary of Closing Panel Discussion21. Recurring Themes and Points of Contention; 22. Afterthoughts; APPENDIX; Conference Attendees. | |
| 520 | |a For any government agency, the distribution of available resources among problems or programs is crucially important. Agencies, however, typically lack a self-conscious process for examining priorities, much less an explicit method for defining what priorities should be. Worst Things First? illustrates the controversy that ensues when previously implicit administrative processes are made explicit and subjected to critical examination. It reveals surprising limitations to quantitative risk assessment as an instrument for precise tuning of policy judgments. The book also demonstrates the strengt. | ||
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