Worst Things First: The Debate over Risk-Based National Environmental Priorities - Softcover

Finkel, Adam M. M.; Golding, Dominic

 
9780915707768: Worst Things First: The Debate over Risk-Based National Environmental Priorities
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0915707764 ISBN 13: 9780915707768
Publisher: Routledge, 1995

Synopsis

For any government agency, the distribution of available resources among problems or programs is crucially important. Agencies, however, typically lack a self-conscious process for examining priorities, much less an explicit method for defining what priorities should be. Worst Things First? illustrates the controversy that ensues when previously implicit administrative processes are made explicit and subjected to critical examination. It reveals surprising limitations to quantitative risk assessment as an instrument for precise tuning of policy judgments. The book also demonstrates the strength of political and social forces opposing the exclusive use of risk assessment in setting environmental priorities.

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Adam M. Finkel, Dominic Golding

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
1995
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0915707764
ISBN 13 
9780915707768
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
362

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