Risk Evaluation and Management

✍ Scribed by Paul Slovic, Baruch Fischhoff, Sarah Lichtenstein (auth.), Vincent T. Covello, Joshua Menkes, Jeryl Mumpower (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1986
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 542
• Series: Contemporary Issues in Risk Analysis 1
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Public attention has focused in recent years on an array of technological risks to health, safety, and the environment. At the same time, responsibilities for technological risk as­ sessment, evaluation, and management have grown in both the public and private sectors because of a perceived need to anticipate, prevent, or reduce the risks inherent in modem society. In attempting to meet these responsibilities, legislative, judicial, regulatory, and private sector institutions have had to deal with the extraordinarily complex problems of assessing and balancing risks, costs, and benefits. The need to help society cope with technological risks has given rise to a new intellectual endeavor: the social and behavioral study of issues in risk evaluation and risk management. The scope and complexity of these analyses require a high degree of cooperative effort on the part of specialists from many fields. Analyzing social and behavioral issues requires the efforts of political scientists, sociologists, decision analysts, management scientists, econ­ omists, psychologists, philosophers, and policy analysts, among others.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The Psychometric Study of Risk Perception....Pages 3-24
Public Perceptions of Technological Risks....Pages 25-67
Public Disputes about Risky Technologies Stakeholders and Arenas....Pages 69-92
Contemporary Worldviews and Perception of the Technological System....Pages 93-130
Risk, Relativism, and Rationality....Pages 131-153
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
Methods for Comparing the Risks of Technologies....Pages 157-182
Comparative Analysis of Formal Decision-Making Approaches....Pages 183-219
Measuring Risk Attitudes in Risk Analysis....Pages 221-231
The Analysis of Risks of Fatalities....Pages 233-248
Methods for Analyzing and Comparing Technological Hazards....Pages 249-274
Risk-Cost-Benefit Methodology and Equal Protection....Pages 275-295
Improving Risk Analysis....Pages 297-318
Risk Evaluation....Pages 319-333
Front Matter....Pages 335-335
Alternatives to Government Regulation for the Management of Technological Risks....Pages 337-357
Alternative Risk Management Policies for State and Local Governments....Pages 359-380
Institutional Mechanisms for Converting Sporadic Agency Decisions into Systematic Risk Management Strategies....Pages 381-411
The Political and Institutional Setting for Risk Analysis....Pages 413-434
The Management of Risk....Pages 435-460
Approaches to Risk Management....Pages 461-487
Consent and the Justification of Risk Analysis....Pages 489-500
Front Matter....Pages 501-501
Science and Analysis....Pages 503-518
Risk Analysis and Risk Management....Pages 519-540
Back Matter....Pages 541-544

✦ Subjects

Environmental Management; Social Sciences, general; Statistics, general