Risk and precaution

by Randall, Alan

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Full title :Risk and precaution / Alan Randall

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2011

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011

The Physical Object

Description:xvii, 260 s

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780521766159, 052176615X, 9780521759199, 0521759196
oclc:ocn769763808
LC Classification:HB615
Dewey Decimal:658.155

List of figures; List of boxes; Acknowledgements; Part I. The Precautionary Principle -- Why So Much Fuss about Such a Simple Idea?: 1. Precaution as common sense: 'look before you leap'; 2. Commonsense precaution or paralysis of fear?; Part II. Harm and Chance -- Managing Risk: 3. Harm, risk, and threat; 4. ORM -- risk management as we know it; 5. Problems with ordinary risk management; Part III. Defining and Justifying a Coherent Precautionary Principle: 6. A defensible precautionary principle must withstand these challenges; 7. Toward a PP framework -- evidence, threat, and remedy; 8. Threat and evidence; 9. Remedy; 10. Precaution for utilitarians?; 11. A robust and defensible precautionary principle; Part IV. Precaution in Action: 12. Precaution: from principle to policy; 13. Integrated risk management; Part V. Conclusion: 14. A role for precaution in an integrated risk management framework; References; Index