Overview
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Vincent T. Covello
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Division of Policy Research and Analysis, Policy Sciences Section, National Science Foundation, Washington, USA
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Joshua Menkes
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National Science Foundation, Washington, USA
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Jeryl Mumpower
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Department of Public Administration, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, USA
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Table of contents (22 chapters)
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Public Perceptions of Risk
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- Paul Slovic, Baruch Fischhoff, Sarah Lichtenstein
Pages 3-24
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- Donald R. DeLuca, Jan A. J. Stolwijk, Wendy Horowitz
Pages 25-67
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- Ward Edwards, Detlof von Winterfeldt
Pages 69-92
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- David M. Buss, Kenneth H. Craik, Karl M. Dake
Pages 93-130
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Risk Evaluation Methods
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Front Matter
Pages 155-155
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- Edward W. Lawless, Martin V. Jones, Richard M. Jones
Pages 157-182
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- James S. Dyer, Rakesh K. Sarin
Pages 221-231
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- C. Hohenemser, R. Goble, J. X. Kasperson, R. E. Kasperson, R. W. Kates, P. Collins et al.
Pages 249-274
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- Kristin Shrader-Frechette
Pages 275-295
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- R. Talbot Page, John A. Ferejohn
Pages 297-318
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Risk Management
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Front Matter
Pages 335-335
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- Michael S. Baram, J. Raymond Miyares
Pages 337-357
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- Arthur Oleinick, Lynn D. Disney, Karen S. East
Pages 381-411
About this book
Public attention has focused in recent years on an array of technological risks to health, safety, and the environment. At the same time, responsibilities for technological risk as sessment, evaluation, and management have grown in both the public and private sectors because of a perceived need to anticipate, prevent, or reduce the risks inherent in modem society. In attempting to meet these responsibilities, legislative, judicial, regulatory, and private sector institutions have had to deal with the extraordinarily complex problems of assessing and balancing risks, costs, and benefits. The need to help society cope with technological risks has given rise to a new intellectual endeavor: the social and behavioral study of issues in risk evaluation and risk management. The scope and complexity of these analyses require a high degree of cooperative effort on the part of specialists from many fields. Analyzing social and behavioral issues requires the efforts of political scientists, sociologists, decision analysts, management scientists, econ omists, psychologists, philosophers, and policy analysts, among others.
Editors and Affiliations
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Division of Policy Research and Analysis, Policy Sciences Section, National Science Foundation, Washington, USA
Vincent T. Covello
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National Science Foundation, Washington, USA
Joshua Menkes
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Department of Public Administration, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, USA
Jeryl Mumpower