Handbook for Environmental Risk Decision Making: Values, Perceptions, and 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." Thi...

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Tác giả chính:	Cothern, C. Richard
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Ngôn ngữ:	English
Được phát hành:	CRC Press 2009
Những chủ đề:	Environmental Sciences
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spelling	oai:scholar.dlu.edu.vn:DLU123456789-11912009-10-13T02:13:50Z Handbook for Environmental Risk Decision Making: Values, Perceptions, and Ethics Cothern, C. Richard Environmental Sciences 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. Values and Value Judgments in Ecological Health Assessments, W. Cooper Strange Chemistry: Environmental Risk Conflicts in a World of Science, Values, and Blind Spots, W.R. Freudenburg Issues in Environmental Risk Decision Making An Overview of Environmental Risk Decision Making: Values, Perceptions, and Ethics, C.R. Cothern Introduction to Issues in Environmental Risk Decision Making, S.R. Baker Industry's Use of Risk, Values, Perceptions, and Ethics in Decision Making, P.J. Hakkinen and C.J. Jeep Regulating and Managing Risk: Impact of Subjectivity on Objectivity, S.R. Baker Back to the Future: Rediscovering the Role of Public Health in Environmental Decision Making, T.A. Burke Telling the Public the Facts-or the Probable Facts-About Risks, V. Cohn The Urgent Need to Integrate Ethical Considerations into Risk Assessment Procedures, D.A. Brown The Problem of Intergenerational Equity: Balancing Risks, Costs, and Benefits Fairly Across Generations, B.L. Catron, L.G. Boyer, J. Grund, and J. Hartung Introduction to Quantitative Issues, D.W. Schnare Ecological Risk Assessment: Toward a Broader Analytic Framework, B.G. Norton Environmental Ethics and Human Values, D. MacLean Moral Values in Risk Decisions, J.A. Nash Values and Comparative Risk Assessment, C.J. Paterson and R.N.L. Andrews Risk and Rationality in Decision Making: Exposing the Underlying Values Used When Confronted by Analytical Uncertainties, D.W. Schnare Comparing Apples and Oranges: Combining Data on Value Judgments, R.M. Putzrath The Ethical Basis of Environmental Risk Analysis, D.J. Crawford-Brown Ethical Theory and the Demands of Sustainability, V.A. Sharpe The Cardinal Virtues of Risk Analysis: Science at the Intersection of Ethics, Rationality, and Culture, D.J. Crawford-Brown and J. Arnold Value Judgments Involved In Verification and Validation of Risk Assessment Models, K. Shrader-Frechette The Stewardship Ethic-Resolving the Environmental Dilemma, D.W. Schnare Introduction to the Commentary Section, C.R. Cothern Awakenings to Risk in the Federal Research and Development Establishments, R.D. Hollander The Citizenship Responsibilities of Chemists, M. McCormack Global Bioethics: Origin and Development, V.R. Potter Ethics and Values in Environmental Risk Assessment-A Synthesis, B.L. Catron 2009-10-13T02:13:50Z 2009-10-13T02:13:50Z 1995 Book 156670131 http://scholar.dlu.edu.vn/thuvienso/handle/DLU123456789/1191 en application/octet-stream CRC Press
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