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Risk and Responsibility.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1994Copyright date: ©1994Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (422 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780773564671
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Risk and ResponsibilityDDC classification:
  • 363.17
LOC classification:
  • RA566.27 .L45 1994
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: The Trouble with Risk -- PART ONE: THE ROOTS OF DISAGREEMENT -- 2 Managing Risks -- 3 Apportioning Responsibility -- PART TWO: OBSTACLES TO CONSENSUS: TWO SEEMINGLY INTRACTABLE CONTROVERSIES -- 4 Power Frequency Electric and Magnetic Fields. Part One: Expert Assessment -- 5 Power Frequency Electric and Magnetic Fields. Part Two: A Public Controversy -- 6 Alar, or Who Benefits? -- PART THREE: TOWARDS CONSENSUS -- 7 Stakeholder Negotiation -- 8 Antisapstain Chemicals -- 9 Useful Lessons -- Appendix 1: PF E/MF and Human Health: Basic Concepts -- Appendix 2: Antisapstain Chemicals - Stakeholder Negotiation Documents -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Summary: Controversies over how to manage health and environmental risks are among the most bitter disagreements in contemporary society. Trying to determine what is in the public interest is at the heart of these disagreements, but the core concerns of major sectors industry, governments, and voluntary associations are also at stake. In Canada and elsewhere, defusing the controversies and finding solutions acceptable to all parties have met with little success. Risk and Responsibility attempts to explain why this is so and what might be done about it.
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Intro -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction: The Trouble with Risk -- PART ONE: THE ROOTS OF DISAGREEMENT -- 2 Managing Risks -- 3 Apportioning Responsibility -- PART TWO: OBSTACLES TO CONSENSUS: TWO SEEMINGLY INTRACTABLE CONTROVERSIES -- 4 Power Frequency Electric and Magnetic Fields. Part One: Expert Assessment -- 5 Power Frequency Electric and Magnetic Fields. Part Two: A Public Controversy -- 6 Alar, or Who Benefits? -- PART THREE: TOWARDS CONSENSUS -- 7 Stakeholder Negotiation -- 8 Antisapstain Chemicals -- 9 Useful Lessons -- Appendix 1: PF E/MF and Human Health: Basic Concepts -- Appendix 2: Antisapstain Chemicals - Stakeholder Negotiation Documents -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Controversies over how to manage health and environmental risks are among the most bitter disagreements in contemporary society. Trying to determine what is in the public interest is at the heart of these disagreements, but the core concerns of major sectors industry, governments, and voluntary associations are also at stake. In Canada and elsewhere, defusing the controversies and finding solutions acceptable to all parties have met with little success. Risk and Responsibility attempts to explain why this is so and what might be done about it.

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