Handbook for environmental risk decision making: values, perceptions & ethics

This handbook describes the broad aspects of risk management involving scientific policy judgment, uncertainty analysis, perception considerations, statistical insights, and strategic thinking. This book presents all the important concepts to enable the reader to "see the big picture." This ability is extremely important - it allows the decision maker or strategic environmental planner to understand and cope with a wide variety of complex and interlinked pieces of information and data. The text presents environmental problems and, whenever applicable, the methodology required to reach a successful solution. Decisions and policies are examined. The book covers numerous objective and subjective components of environmental risk decision making. It details quantitative and comparative risk, and investigates the cost and feasibility of different decisions. Social pressures, safety, and political, religious, ethical, and psychological issues are addressed. How to evaluate the potential impact on the quality of life also is discussed. Any company doing risk assessment, risk management, or risk communication, as well as those doing environmental decision making will find this reference to be invaluable. It is also suitable as a text for courses in environmental management, environmental science, and risk assessment in the areas of risk management and strategic environmental planning.

Papers from a one day symposium held at the [208th] National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Washington, D.C., Aug. 24, 1994.

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Section I: INTRODUCTION -- 1. Values and Value Judgments in Ecological Health Assessments / William Cooper -- 2. Strange Chemistry: Environmental Risk Conflicts in a World of Science, Values, and Blind Spots / William R. Freudenburg -- Section II: ISSUES IN ENVIRONMENTAL RISK DECISION MAKING -- 3. An Overview of Environmental Risk Decision Making: Values, Perceptions, and Ethics / C. Richard Cothern -- 4. Introduction to Issues in Environmental Risk Decision Making / Scott R. Baker -- 5. Industry's Use of Risk, Values, Perceptions, and Ethics in Decision Making / P.J. (Bert) Hakkinen and Carolyn J. Leep -- 6. Regulating and Managing Risk: Impact of Subjectivity on Objectivity / Scott R. Baker -- 7. Back to the Future: Rediscovering the Role of Public Health in Environmental Decision Making / Thomas A. Burke -- 8. Telling the Public the Facts -- or the Probable Facts -- About Risks / Victor Cohn -- 9. The Urgent Need to Integrate Ethical Considerations into Risk Assessment Procedures / Donald A. Brown -- 10. The Problem of Intergenerational Equity: Balancing Risks, Costs, and Benefits Fairly Across Generations / Bayard L. Catron, Lawrence G. Boyer, Jennifer Grund, and John Hartung …