Readings in risk /
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| Imprint: | Washington, D.C. : Resources for the Future ; Baltimore : Distributed by the Johns Hopkins University Press, c1990. |
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| Description: | xiv, 262 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8445058 |
Table of Contents:
- Probing the question of technology-induced risk ; Choosing and managing technology-induced risk / M. Granger Morgan
- Defining risk / Baruch Fischhoff, Stephen R. Watson, and Chris Hope
- Risk analysis : understanding "how safe is safe enough?" / Stephen L. Derby and Ralph L. Kenney
- Analyzing the daily risks of life / Richard Wilson
- Rating the risks / Paul Slovic, Baruch Fischhoff, and Sarah Lichtenstein
- Ranking possible carcinogenic hazards / Bruce N. Ames, Renae Magaw, and Lois Swirsky Gold. Technical comment : carcinogenic risk estimation / Samuel S. Epstein and Joel B. Swartz. Response to Samuel E. Epstein / Bruce N. Ames and Lois Swirsky Gold
- Risk, science, and democracy / William D. Ruckelshaus
- No risk is the highest risk of all / Aaron Wildavsky
- Cost benefit analysis : an ethical critique / Steven Kelman. Reply to Steven Kelman / Gerard Butters, John Calfee, and Pauline Ippolito
- Application of risk assessment to food safety decision making / Joseph Rodricks and Michael R. Taylor
- Assessing risks from health hazards : an imperfect science / Dale Hattis and David Kennedy
- A quantitative estimate of leukemia mortality associated with occupational exposure to benzene / Mary C. White, Peter F. Infante, and Kenneth C. Chu
- Letter to the editor : benzene and the one-hit model / Jerry L.R. Chandler
- Letter to the editor : assessment of leukemia mortality associated with occupational exposure to benzene / Peter F. Infante, Mary C. White, and Kenneth C. Chu
- Social benefit versus technological risk / Chauncey Starr
- The application of probabilistic risk assessment techniques to energy technologies / Norman C. Rasmussen
- Assessing the risk of an LNG terminal / Ralph L. Keeney, Ram B. Kulkarni, and Keshavan Nair
- The emergence of risk communication studies : social and political context / Alonzo Plough and Sheldon Krimsky
- Getting to maybe : some communications aspects of siting hazardous waste facilities / Peter M. Sandman
- Informed choice or regulated risk? : lessons from a study in radon risk communication / F. Reed Johnson ... [et al.].
