| Main Title |
Risk and reason : safety, law, and the environment / |
| Author |
Sunstein, Cass R.
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| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press, |
| Year Published |
2002 |
| OCLC Number |
48943694 |
| ISBN |
0521791995; 9780521791991; 0521016258; 9780521016254 |
| Subjects |
Risk management ;
Risk assessment ;
Decision making ;
Analyse des risques ;
Protection de l'environnement ;
Principe de prcaution ;
Risques sanitaires ;
Réglementation ;
Analyse coãut-bénéfice ;
Etats-Unis d'Amérique ;
Milieurisico's ;
Kosten-batenanalyse ;
Risicoanalyse ;
Besluitvorming
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| Holdings |
| Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last
Modified |
Checkout
Status |
| EKBM |
HD61.S86 2002 |
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Research Triangle Park Library/RTP, NC |
03/14/2003 |
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| Collation |
x, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents Notes |
Beyond 1970s environmentalism -- Thinking about risks -- Are the experts wrong? -- This month's risk (with Timur Kuran) -- Reducing risks rationally -- Health-health tradeoffs -- The arithmetic of arsenic -- Of courts and law: cost-benefit default principles -- Cleaning the air -- Tools. "Risk and Reason shows how individual thinking and social interactions lead us in foolish directions. Offering sound proposals for social reform, it explains how a more sensible system of risk regulation, embodied in the idea of a cost-benefit state, could save many thousands of lives and many billions of dollars - and protect the environment in the process."--Jacket. |
