Main Title |
Readings in risk / |
Other Authors |
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Publisher |
Resources for the Future ; Distributed by the Johns Hopkins University Press, |
Year Published |
1990 |
OCLC Number |
21407050 |
ISBN |
0915707551; 9780915707553 |
Subjects |
Technology--Risk assessment ;
Health risk assessment ;
Environmental Exposure ;
Carcinogens ;
Gesundheitsgefährdung--(DE-588)4071808-6 ;
Risiko--(DE-588)4050129-2 ;
Risikotheorie--(DE-588)4135592-1 ;
Technik--(DE-588)4059205-4
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Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
EJBM |
T174.5.R38 1990 |
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Headquarters Library/Washington,DC |
06/01/2016 |
EJEM |
T174.5.R38 1990 |
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OCSPP Chemical Library/Washington,DC |
01/23/2004 |
EKBM |
T174.5.R38 1990 |
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Research Triangle Park Library/RTP, NC |
07/23/1993 |
ESAM |
T174.5.R38 1990 |
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Region 10 Library/Seattle,WA |
02/02/1996 |
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Collation |
xiv, 262 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-262). |
Contents Notes |
Probing the question of technology-induced risk ; Choosing and managing technology-induced risk / M. Granger Morgan -- Defining risk / Baruch Fischhoff, Stephen R. Watson, and Chris Hope -- Risk analysis : understanding "how safe is safe enough?" / Stephen L. Derby and Ralph L. Kenney -- Analyzing the daily risks of life / Richard Wilson -- Rating the risks / Paul Slovic, Baruch Fischhoff, and Sarah Lichtenstein -- Ranking possible carcinogenic hazards / Bruce N. Ames, Renae Magaw, and Lois Swirsky Gold. Technical comment : carcinogenic risk estimation / Samuel S. Epstein and Joel B. Swartz. Response to Samuel E. Epstein / Bruce N. Ames and Lois Swirsky Gold -- Risk, science, and democracy / William D. Ruckelshaus -- No risk is the highest risk of all / Aaron Wildavsky -- Cost benefit analysis : an ethical critique / Steven Kelman. Reply to Steven Kelman / Gerard Butters, John Calfee, and Pauline Ippolito. Application of risk assessment to food safety decision making / Joseph Rodricks and Michael R. Taylor -- Assessing risks from health hazards : an imperfect science / Dale Hattis and David Kennedy -- A quantitative estimate of leukemia mortality associated with occupational exposure to benzene / Mary C. White, Peter F. Infante, and Kenneth C. Chu -- Letter to the editor : benzene and the one-hit model / Jerry L.R. Chandler -- Letter to the editor : assessment of leukemia mortality associated with occupational exposure to benzene / Peter F. Infante, Mary C. White, and Kenneth C. Chu -- Social benefit versus technological risk / Chauncey Starr -- The application of probabilistic risk assessment techniques to energy technologies / Norman C. Rasmussen. Assessing the risk of an LNG terminal / Ralph L. Keeney, Ram B. Kulkarni, and Keshavan Nair -- The emergence of risk communication studies : social and political context / Alonzo Plough and Sheldon Krimsky -- Getting to maybe : some communications aspects of siting hazardous waste facilities / Peter M. Sandman -- Informed choice or regulated risk? : lessons from a study in radon risk communication / F. Reed Johnson [and others]. |
Place Published |
Washington, D.C. Baltimore |
PUB Date Free Form |
©1990 |
BIB Level |
m |
Medium |
unmediated |
Content |
text |
Carrier |
volume |
Cataloging Source |
OCLC/T |
LCCN |
90035402 |
OCLC Time Stamp |
20160531163938 |
Language |
eng |
Origin |
OCLC |
Type |
CAT |
OCLC Rec Leader |
05307cam 2200865 a 45020 |