In the chamber of risks : understanding risk controversies /
The essential problem is the failure to recognize that controversies over risks are "normal events" in modern society and as such will be with us for the foreseeable future. Three key propositions define these events: risk management decisions are inherently disputable; public perceptions...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal, Que. :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
©2001.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Risk issue management
- Frankenfoods; or, the trouble with science
- Cellular telephones
- MMT, a risk management masquerade
- Regulating nuclear power: the mismanagement of public consultation in Canada / Michael D. Mehta
- Environment's x-file: pulp mill effluent regulation
- Between expertise and bureaucracy: trapped at the interface of science and policy
- The CEPA soap opera
- Voluntary instruments / Eric Darier and Deborah VanNijnatten
- Tobacco uncontrolled
- Into the maze of moral risks
- Towards competence in risk issue management
- Appendix: providing independent expert advice to government and the public.