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'Acceptable Evidence' enters into how the discussions of science and values in risk management have largely focused on how values enter into arguments about risks, that is, issues of acceptable risk. Instead, this volume concentrates on how values enter into collecting, interpreting, commu...

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Other Authors: Hollander, Rachelle D., Mayo, Deborah G.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1994, ©1991.
Series:Environmental ethics and science policy.
Subjects:
Risk management.
Technology > Risk assessment.
Risk Management
Gestion du risque.
Technologie > Évaluation du risque.
risk management.
Risk management
Technology > Risk assessment
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:'Acceptable Evidence' enters into how the discussions of science and values in risk management have largely focused on how values enter into arguments about risks, that is, issues of acceptable risk. Instead, this volume concentrates on how values enter into collecting, interpreting, communicating and evaluating the evidence of risks, that is, issues of the acceptability of evidence of risk.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 292 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780197560556
0197560555