Technological Risk Assessment / edited by Paolo F. Ricci, Leonard A. Sagan, Chris G. Whipple.

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Main Author: Ricci, Paolo F.
Other Authors: Sagan, Leonard A., Whipple, Chris G.
Other title:Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Technological Risk Assessment, Erice, Sicily, Italy, May 20-31, 1981.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1984.
Series:NATO ASI series. Applied sciences ; 81.
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Table of Contents:
  • I. Health Risk Assessment
  • Problems in Health Measurements for the Risk Assessor
  • Issues Related to Carcinogenic Risk Assessment from Animal Bioassay Data
  • II. Engineering Risk Assessment
  • Engineering Risk Analysis
  • Quantities of Hazardous Materials
  • The Wider Implications of the Canvey Island Study: A Discussion
  • Benefits and Risks of Industrial Development with Special Regard to the Field of Power Production
  • III. Risk Evaluation and Management
  • Principles for Saving and Valuing Lives
  • Eight Frameworks for Regulation
  • A Comparison of Air Pollution Control Standards as Adopted in Various Industrialized Countries
  • Actual and Perceived Risk: A Review of the Literature
  • Psychological Aspects of Risk: The Assessment of Threat and Control
  • IV. References
  • Risk Analysis and Technological Hazards: A Policy-Related Bibliography.