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The Social Response to Environmental Risk

Policy Formulation in an Age of Uncertainty

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Daniel W. Bromley
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  2. Kathleen Segerson
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Part of the book series: Recent Economic Thought (RETH, volume 24)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Entitlements and Public Policy in Environmental Risks

    • Daniel W. Bromley
    Pages 1-21

  3. Environmental Risk Perception and Valuation: Conventional Versus Prospective Reference Theory

    • V. Kerry Smith
    Pages 23-56

  4. Risk Perception and the Perceived Public

    • Lola L. Lopes
    Pages 57-74

  5. The Media and Public Perceptions of Risk: How Journalists Frame Risk Stories

    • Sharon Dunwoody
    Pages 75-100

  6. The Policy Response to Risk and Risk Perceptions

    • Kathleen Segerson
    Pages 101-130

  7. Decision Making About Biotechnology: The Costs of Learning from Error

    • E. J. Woodhouse, Patrick. W. Hamlett
    Pages 131-150

  8. Gaining Acceptance for Noxious Facilities with Economic Incentives

    • Howard Kunreuther, Douglas Easterling
    Pages 151-186

  9. Occupational Safety and Health in the 1990s

    • W. Kip Viscusi
    Pages 187-206

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 207-216
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About this book

We have undertaken this volume in the belief that there is now sufficient research completed on environmental risk to justify a retrospective assessment of what is known. Our authors and our intended audience are eclectic indeed. Environ­ mental risk assessment receives increasing attention in the media today. The populace is practically assaulted with stories, with anecdotes, and with conflicting evidence. It is our hope that these chapters will provide the reader with a comprehensive glimpse of a fast-growing field in public policy. No complete survey of the literature would be possible or meaningful. We offer here instead the integrative thoughts of some of the most respected analysts in the field. We believe that the coverage is coherent, the perspectives are illuminating, and the individual "treatments deserving of careful study. We are grateful to Warren Samuels of Michigan State University who is editor of the Kluwer series on recent economic thought. We are also grateful to our Kluwer editor, Zach Rolnik. Both have been gracious in their toleration of unconscionable delays. IX The Social Response to Environmental Risk Policy Formulation in an Age of Uncertainty 1 ENTITLEMENTS AND PUBLIC POLICY IN ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS Daniel W. Bromley* [all rights] are conditional and derivative ... they are derived from the end or purpose of the society in which they exist. They are conditional on being used to the attainment of that end.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Social Response to Environmental Risk

  • Book Subtitle: Policy Formulation in an Age of Uncertainty

  • Editors: Daniel W. Bromley, Kathleen Segerson

  • Series Title: Recent Economic Thought

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2954-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1992

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-9208-8Published: 31 March 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-5311-2Published: 09 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-2954-1Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0924-199X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 216

  • Topics: Environmental Economics, Microeconomics, Economic Policy

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