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- Editors:
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Howard Kunreuther
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Risk and Decision Processes Center, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
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M. V. Rajeev Gowda
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Risk and Decision Processes Center, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
Pages i-xvii
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Introduction
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- Howard Kunreuther, Rajeev Gowda
Pages 1-11
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Cleaning Up Inactive Waste Sites
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- Elizabeth Anderson, Paul Chrostowski, Judy Vreeland
Pages 15-40
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- James Seif, Thomas Voltaggio
Pages 83-102
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Managing Existing Waste Sites
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Front Matter
Pages 103-104
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- Baruch Berliner, Juerg Spuehler
Pages 131-168
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The Small Group Discussions
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Front Matter
Pages 191-194
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- Isadore Rosenthal, Lynn Johnson
Pages 245-270
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- Neil Doherty, Paul Kleindorfer, Howard Kunreuther
Pages 271-302
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Towards an Integrated Waste Management Strategy
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Front Matter
Pages 331-331
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- Howard Kunreuther, Rajeev Gowda
Pages 343-350
About this book
A challenge facing society today is how to develop a meaningful strategy for integrated hazardous waste management. Meeting this challenge was the principal motivation for the conference on "Risk Assessment and Risk Management Strategies for Hazardous Waste Storage and Disposal Prob lems," held at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania on May 18-19, 1988. The conference brought together representatives from the major interested parties - environmentalists, government, insurance, law, manufacturing, and the university community - who have been con cerned with the waste management process. The conference was the third cosponsored by the Wharton Center for Risk and Decision Processes addressing the knotty problem of hazardous waste. The first, held at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in 1985, examined the transportation, storage, and disposal of hazardous materials. It suggested steps that industry, insurers, and gov ernment agencies could take to improve the safety and efficiency with which hazardous materials are produced and controlled in industrialized societies. Specifically, it focused on the risk-management tools of insurance, com pensation, and regulation. xv xvi PREFACE The second conference, held at the Wharton School, University of Penn sylvania in 1986, concentrated on the role of insurance and compensation in environmental pollution problems. It characterized a set of problems related to the environmental pollution liability insurance crisis as presented by key interested parties and proposed a set of research needs for providing a sound basis for constructing socially appropriate measures to deal with the problem.
