Risk evaluation and management / edited by Vincent T. Covello and Joshua Menkes and Jeryl Mumpower.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Other Authors: Covello, Vincent T., Menkes, Joshua, Mumpower, Jeryl, 1949-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Plenum Press, ℗♭1986.
Series:Contemporary issues in risk analysis ; v. 1.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Public perceptions of risk
  • The psychometric study of risk perception / Paul Slovic, Baruch Fischhoff, Sarah Lichtenstein
  • Public perceptions of technological risk : a methodological study / Donald R. DeLuca, Jan A.J. Stolwijk, Wendy Horowitz
  • Public disputes about risky technologies : stakeholders and arenas / Ward Edwards and Detlof von Winterfeldt
  • Contempory worldviews and perception of the technological system / David M. Buss, Kenneth H. Craik, Karl M. Dake
  • Risk, relativism, and rationality / Marx W. Wartofsky
  • II. Risk evaluation methods
  • Methods for comparing the risks of technologies / Edward W. Lawless, Martin V. Jones, Richard M. Jones
  • Comparative analysis of formal decision-making approaches / Miley W. Merkhofer
  • Measuring risk attitudes in risk analysis / James S. Dyer and Rakesh K. Sarin
  • Analysis of risks of fatalities / Ralph L. Keeney
  • Methods for analyzing and comparing technological hazards / C. Hohenemser [and others]
  • Risk-cost-benefit methodology and equal protection / Kristin Shrader-Frechette
  • Improving risk analysis / R. Talbot Page and John A. Ferejohn
  • Risk evaluation : a review of the literature / Lloyd L. Philipson
  • III. Risk management
  • Alternatives to government regulation for the management of technological risks / Michael S. Baram and J. Raymond Miyares
  • Alternative risk management policies for state and local governmnets / David Okrent
  • Institutional mechanisms for converting sporadic agency decisions into systematic risk management strategies : OSHA, the Supreme Court, and the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia / Arthur Oleinick, Lynn D. Disney, Karen S. East
  • The political and institutional setting for risk analysis / Michael E. Kraft
  • The management of risk / Rae Zimmerman
  • Approaches to risk management : a critique / Lester B. Lave
  • Consent and the justification of risk analysis / Douglas MacLean
  • IV. Overview of risk evaluation management
  • Science and analysis : roles in risk and decision making / John D. Graham, Howard Raiffa, James W. Vaupel
  • Risk analysis and risk management : a historical perspective / Vincent T. Covello and Jeryl Mumpower.