Acceptable evidence : science and values in risk management /

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Imprint:New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 292 pages) : illustrations
Language:English
Series:Environmental ethics and science policy series
Environmental ethics and science policy.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11280738
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Other authors / contributors:Mayo, Deborah G.
Hollander, Rachelle D.
ISBN:9780198022848
0198022840
0195063724
9780195063721
0195089294
9780195089295
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:Discussions of science and values in risk management have largely focused on how values enter into arguments about risks, that is, issues of acceptable risk. Instead this volume concentrates on how values enter into collecting, interpreting, communicating, and evaluating the evidence of risks, that is, issues of the acceptability of evidence of risk. By focusing on acceptable evidence, this volume avoids two barriers to progress. One barrier assumes that evidence of risk is largely a matter of objective scientific data and therefore uncontroversial. The other assumes that evidence of risk, bei.
Other form:Print version: Acceptable evidence. New York : Oxford University Press, 1991 0195063724 9780195063721