Synopsis
A framework for making decisions about risks, with recommendations for research, public policy, and practice.
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Review
'A brief summary cannot do justice to the depth and breadth of the analysis laid out in Acceptable Risk ... [The authors] have achieved a masterly systematization of the many practical, methodological, and philosophical problems raised by attempts to answer the question, “how safe is safe enough?”' Nature
' ... the best critical exposition of ways to think about risks ... ends with many sensible recommendations ...' Ian Hacking, The New York Review of Books
Book Description
Drawing on their own experience in risk management, the suthors construct a framework for deciding how to make decisions about risks, and offer recommendations for research, public policy, and practice. Their analysis appies to many risks, not just technological, but risks such as those from new medical treatments or innovative criminal justice programmes.
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Acceptable Risk
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Cambridge University Press, 1981
ISBN 10: 0521241642
ISBN 13: 9780521241649
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