Making better environmental decisions an alternative to risk assessment /
| Main Author: | O'Brien, Mary, 1945- |
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| Other Authors: | Environmental Research Foundation (Annapolis, Md.) |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cambridge :
MIT Press,
[2000]
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| Physical Description: |
xviii, 286 pages : maps ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- Goal : replace risk assessment with alternatives assessment
- How does risk assessment actually work?
- What are we defending with risk assessment?
- When scientists shut their eyes : pretending that the safety of hazardous activities can be estimated
- When decision makers become compromised : pronouncing unnecessary hazardous activities "acceptable"
- When a society isn't serious about environmental health : assessing a narrow range of options
- Who loves, uses, or cooperates with risk assessment?
- Unnecessary societal triage : comparative risk assessment
- Alternatives assessment : the case of bovine growth hormone and rotational grazing
- Alternatives assessment vs. cost-benefit analysis : there is more to life than money
- We already know how to do alternatives assessment
- We know how to push for alternatives assessments
- The essential features of an alternatives assessment
- A society that assesses it alternatives
- Alternatives assessment : more information, fewer pages
- Getting started
- Barriers to alternatives assessment
- Forces for alternatives assessment.