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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 20. Summary of Closing Panel Discussion21. Recurring Themes and Points of Contention; 22. Afterthoughts; APPENDIX; Conference Attendees.