Making better environmental decisions : an alternative to risk assessment /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: O'Brien, Mary, 1945-
Autor Corporativo: Environmental Research Foundation (Annapolis, Md.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : MIT Press, ©2000.
Temas:
Environmental risk assessment.
Environmental policy > Decision making.
Environnement > Évaluation du risque.
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale > Prise de décision.
NATURE > Natural Resources.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Environmental Economics.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Green Business.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Goal: Replace Risk Assessment with Alternatives Assessment
  • 2. How Does Risk Assessment Actually Work?
  • 3. What Are We Defending with Risk Assessment?
  • 4. When Scientists Shut Their Eyes: Pretending That the Safety of Hazardous Activities Can Be Estimated
  • 5. When Decision Makers Become Compromised: Pronouncing unnecessary Hazardous Activities "Acceptable"
  • 6. When a Society Isn't Serious About Environmental Health: Assessing a Narrow Range of Options
  • 7. Who Loves, Uses, or Cooperates with Risk Assessment?
  • 8. Unnecessary Societal Triage: Comparative Risk Assessment
  • 9. Alternatives Assessment: The Case of Bovine Growth Hormone and Rotational Grazing
  • 10. Alternatives Assessment vs. Cost-Benefit Analysis: There Is More to Life Than Money
  • 11. We Already Know How to Do Alternatives Assessment
  • 12. We Know How to Push for Alternatives Assessments
  • 13. essential Features of an Alternatives Assessment
  • 14. Society That Assesses Its Alternatives
  • 15. Alternatives Assessment: More Information, Fewer Pages
  • 16. Getting Started
  • 17. Barriers to Alternatives Assessment
  • 18. Forces for Alternatives Assessment.

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