In this Book
- Value Assumptions in Risk Assessment: A Case Study of the Alachlor Controversy
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
summary
Selected by Choice as one of the outstanding publications for 1991.
Are risk debates disputes between those who accept the findings of science and those who do not? Between good and bad science? Or is it possible that opposing assessments of risk, by scientific experts as well as ordinary citizens, reflect and are guided by dominant values held by the assessors? The following analysis of one of these debates supports the latter view. In it we suggest what those dominant values are, how they work within a risk assessment, and some implications of reconceiving risk debates as primarily debates about values.
Table of Contents
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- Title page, Copyright
- pp. i-ii
- Acknowledgements
- pp. v-vi
- I. The Alachlor Controversy
- pp. 16-31
- VI. Value Frameworks in Risk Analysis
- pp. 137-152
Additional Information
ISBN
9780889208735
Related ISBN(s)
9780889202665
MARC Record
OCLC
647607370
Pages
166
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
1991