Worst Things First: The Debate Over Risk-Based National Environmental PrioritiesAdam 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. |
Índice
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 |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Worst Things First: The Debate over Risk-Based National Environmental Priorities Adam M. Finkel,Dominic Golding Pré-visualização limitada - 2014 |
Worst Things First: The Debate over Risk-Based National Environmental Priorities Adam M. Finkel,Dominic Golding Pré-visualização limitada - 2014 |
Worst Things First?: The Debate Over Risk-based National Environmental ... Adam M. Finkel,Dominic Golding Visualização de excertos - 1994 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Administrator African American air pollutants alternative approach benefits budget Bullard carcinogens Chapter chemicals choices Clean Air Act communities comparative risk assessment concerns conference Congress costs debate decisions develop discussion ecological economic effects efforts emissions envi environment environmental justice Environmental Law environmental policy environmental priorities Environmental Protection Agency EPA's equity estimates example experts exposure federal framework goals groups hard version Hattis hazardous waste Hornstein human health impact implement improvement industry innovation issues legislative levels ment methodology Office of Policy options percent pesticides political pollution prevention production programs radon ranking Reducing Risk regulation regulatory Reilly relative risk risk analysis risk management risk reduction risk-based paradigm risk-based priority setting ronmental setting priorities social society specific strategic planning strategy Superfund tion toxic U.S. Environmental Protection U.S. EPA uncertainty Unfinished Business values Washington West Dallas
Referências a este livro
Pluralism by the Rules: Conflict and Cooperation in Environmental Regulation Edward P. Weber Pré-visualização limitada - 1998 |
Environmentally Devastated Neighborhoods: Perceptions, Policies, and Realities Michael R. Greenberg,Dona Schneider Pré-visualização limitada - 1996 |