Worst Things First: The Debate Over Risk-Based National Environmental Priorities

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Adam M. Finkel, Dominic Golding
Resources for the Future, 1995 - 348 páginas
For any government agency, the distribution of available resources among problems or programs is crucially important. Agencies, however, typically lack a self-conscious process for examining priorities, much less an explicit method for defining what priorities should be. Worst Things First? illustrates the controversy that ensues when previously implicit administrative processes are made explicit and subjected to critical examination. It reveals surprising limitations to quantitative risk assessment as an instrument for precise tuning of policy judgments. The book also demonstrates the strength of political and social forces opposing the exclusive use of risk assessment in setting environmental priorities.
 

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Keynote Address
13
Framing the Debate
33
An Overview of RiskBased Priority Setting at EPA
47
Integrating Science Values and Democracy through
69
A Proposal to Address Rather Than Rank Environmental
87
Too Little
107
More Promise Than
133
Procedural Concerns
147
The National Laboratory for
187
Consolidating the Discussions
193
The Prevention Paradigm
203
Why We Need Pollution
229
Incorporating
237
RiskBased Priorities and Environmental Justice
267
Promoting Innovation The Easy Way
315
Recurring Themes and Points of Contention
329

Is Reducing Risk the Real Objective
167
Implementation Concerns
181
Conference Attendees
345
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