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The Science of Bureaucracy - Risk Decision-Making and the US Environmental Protection Agency (Paperback)
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The Science of Bureaucracy - Risk Decision-Making and the US Environmental Protection Agency (Paperback)
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How the US Environmental Protection Agency designed the governance
of risk and forged its legitimacy over the course of four decades.
The US Environmental Protection Agency was established in 1970 to
protect the public health and environment, administering and
enforcing a range of statutes and programs. Over four decades, the
EPA has been a risk bureaucracy, formalizing many of the methods of
the scientific governance of risk, from quantitative risk
assessment to risk ranking. Demortain traces the creation of these
methods for the governance of risk, the controversies to which they
responded, and the controversies that they aroused in turn. He
discusses the professional networks in which they were conceived;
how they were used; and how they served to legitimize the EPA.
Demortain argues that the EPA is structurally embedded in
controversy, resulting in constant reevaluation of its credibility
and fueling the evolution of the knowledge and technologies it uses
to produce decisions and to create a legitimate image of how and
why it acts on the environment. He describes the emergence and
institutionalization of the risk assessment-risk management
framework codified in the National Research Council's Red Book, and
its subsequent unraveling as the agency's mission evolved toward
environmental justice, ecological restoration, and sustainability,
and as controversies over determining risk gained vigor in the
1990s. Through its rise and fall at the EPA, risk decision-making
enshrines the science of a bureaucracy that learns how to make
credible decisions and to reform itself, amid constant conflicts
about the environment, risk, and its own legitimacy.
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