Risk and reason : safety, law, and the environment
by
Sunstein, Cass R.
Title
:
Risk and reason : safety, law, and the environment
Author
:
Sunstein, Cass R.
ISBN
:
9780521791991
9780521016254
Personal Author
:
Sunstein, Cass R.
Publication Information
:
New York, NY Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Physical Description
:
x, 342 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
:
Introduction: Magnitudes, Tradeoffs, and Tools -- 1. Beyond 1970s Environmentalism -- 2. Thinking About Risks -- 3. Are Experts Wrong? -- 4. This Month's Risk (with Timur Kuran) -- 5. Reducing Risks Rationally -- 6. Health-Health Tradeoffs -- 7. The Arithmetic of Arsenic -- 8. Of Courts and Law: Cost-Benefit Default Principles -- 9. Cleaning the Air -- 10. Tools -- Afterword: On Consequences and Technocrats -- App. A. Worldwide Health Statistics -- App. B. Statistical Risks: U.S. General Mortality Trends -- App. C. Cost-Benefit Numbers for Ozone and Particulates -- App. D. Dose-Response Curves.
Abstract
:
"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Subject Term
:
Risk management.
Risk assessment.
Decision making.
Electronic Access
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| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
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| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168015769868 | 368 S964R 2002 | 1 |