Making better environmental decisions : an alternative to risk assessment / Mary O'Brien ; [foreword by Peter Montague]

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Main Author: O'Brien, Mary, 1945-
Corporate Author: Environmental Research Foundation (Annapolis, Md.)
Other Authors: Montague, Peter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2000]
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505 0 0 |g I :  |t WHAT IS WRONG WITH RISK ASSESSMENT?:  |t Goal : replace risk assessment with alternatives assessment --  |t How does risk assessment actually work? --  |t What are we defending with risk assessment? --  |t When scientists shut their eyes : pretending that the safety of hazardous activities can be estimated --  |t When decision makers become compromised : pronouncing unnecessary hazardous activities "acceptable" --  |t When a society isn't serious about environmental health : assessing a narrow range of options --  |t Who loves, uses, or cooperates with risk assessment? --  |t Unnecessary societal triage : comparative risk assessment --  |g II :  |t ALTERNATIVES ASSESSMENT AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO RISK ASSESSMENT:  |t Alternatives assessment : the case of bovine growth hormone and rotational grazing --  |t Alternatives assessment vs. cost-benefit analysis : there is more to life than money --  |t We already know how to do alternatives assessment --  |t We know how to push for alternatives assessments --  |t The essential features of an alternatives assessment --  |t A society that assesses it alternatives --  |t Alternatives assessment : more information, fewer pages --  |g III :  |t MAKING THE SHIFT TO ALTERNATIVES ASSESSMENT:  |t Getting started --  |t Barriers to alternatives assessment --  |t Forces for alternatives assessment. 
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650 0 |a Environmental policy  |x Decision making. 
650 6 |a Environnement  |x Évaluation du risque. 
650 6 |a Environnement  |x Politique gouvernementale  |x Prise de décision. 
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