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Risk Evaluation and Management

Risk Evaluation and Management

Menkes, Joshua
Mumpower, J. L.
Covello, V. T.

Paperback

Series: Contemporary Issues in Risk Analysis, Book 1

Technology & EngineeringGeneral GardeningGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 146129245X
ISBN13: 9781461292456
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Sep 30 2011
Pages: 556
Weight: 2.12
Height: 1.14 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English
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.

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