Risk Evaluation and Management (1986) (Contemporary Issues in Risk Analysis #1)

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Synopsis
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.
Copyright:
1986

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
556 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781461321033
Related ISBNs:
9780306419782
Publisher:
Springer US
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
JerylMumpower, JoshuaMenkes, Vincent T. Covello
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Technology, Social Studies, Mathematics and Statistics
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
V.T. Covello
Edited by:
Joshua Menkes
Edited by:
J.L. Mumpower

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