Making Better Environmental Decisions: An Alternative to Risk Assessment

Published by MIT Press (2000), Cambridge [MA], 2000

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orig.cloth Minor rubbing. Light binding corner bump. VG. Textual maps. 23x15cm, xviii,286 pp Contents: What is Wrong with Risk Assessment? Goal: Replace Risk Assessment with Alternatives Assessment; How Does Risk Assessment Actually Work? What Are We Defending with Risk Assessment? When Scientists Shut Their Eyes: Pretending That the Safety of Hazardous Activities Can Be Estimated; When Decision Makers Become Compromised: Pronouncing Unneccessary Hazardous Activities "Acceptable"; When a Society Isn't Serious About Environmental Health; Assessing a Narrow Range of Options; Who Loves, Uses, or Cooperates with Risk Assessment; Unneccessary Societal Triage: Comparative Risk Assessment; Alternatives Assessment as an Alternative to Risk Assessment; Alternatives Assessment: The Case of Bovine Growth Hormone & Rotational Grazing; Alternatives Assessment vs. Cost-Benefit Analysis: There Is More to Life Than Money; We Already Know How To Do Alternatives Assessment; We Know How to Push for Alternatives Assessment; The Essential Features of an Alternatives Assessment; A Society That Assesses Its Alternatives; Alternatives Assessment: More Information, Fewer Pages; Making the Shift to Alternatives Assessment; Getting Started; Barriers to Alternatives Assessment; Forces for Alternatives Assessement. Minor rubbing. Light binding corner bump. VG.…

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Title
Making Better Environmental Decisions: An Alternative to Risk Assessment
Author
O'Brien, Mary
Publisher
MIT Press (2000), Cambridge [MA]
Publication year
2000
Binding
Hardcover

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