Handbook for environmental risk decision making : values, perceptions, and ethics /: values, perceptions, and ethics. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by C. Richard Cothern.
• Editors: Cothern, C. Richard
• Contents: Introduction: Values and Value Judgments in Ecological Health Assessments. Strange Chemistry: Environmental Risk Conflicts in a World of Science, Values, and Blind Spots; Issues in Environmental Risk Decision Making: An Overview of Environmental Risk Decision Making: Values, Perceptions, and Ethics. Introduction to Issues in Environmental Risk Decision Making. Industry's Use of Risk, Values, Perceptions, and Ethics in Decision Making. Regulating and Managing Risk: Impact of Subjectivity on Objectivity. Back to the Future: Rediscovering the Role of Public Health in Environmental Decision Making. Telling the Public the Facts-or the Probable Facts-About Risks. The Urgent Need to Integrate Ethical Considerations into Risk Assessment Procedures. The Problem of Intergenerational Equity: Balancing Risks, Costs, and Benefits Fairly Across Generations; Values and Value Judgments: Introduction to Quantitative Issues. Ecological Risk Assessment: Toward a Broader Analytic Framework. Environmental Ethics and Human Values. Moral Values in Risk Decisions. Values and Comparative Risk Assessment. Risk and Rationality in Decision Making: Exposing the Underlying Values Used When Confronted by Analytical Uncertainties. Comparing Apples and Oranges: Combining Data on Value Judgments. The Ethical Basis of Environmental Risk Analysis. Ethical Theory and the Demands of Sustainability. The Cardinal Virtues of Risk Analysis: Science at the Intersection of Ethics, Rationality, and Culture. Value Judgments Involved In Verification and Validation of Risk Assessment Models. The Stewardship Ethic-Resolving the Environmental Dilemma; Commentary: Introduction to the Commentary Section. Awakenings to Risk in the Federal Research and Development Establishments. The Citizenship Responsibilities of Chemists. Global Bioethics: Origin and Development. Ethics and Values in Environmental Risk Assessment-A Synthesis; The Contributors. Index.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 363.700684; Environmental risk assessment; Environmental policy -- Decision making; Environmental ethics; Values
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429525339; 9780429540035; 9780429144042
• Related ISBNs: 9781420048735
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