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Environmental Standards - Scientific Foundations and Rational Procedures of Regulation with Emphasis on Radiological Risk Management (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
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Environmental Standards - Scientific Foundations and Rational Procedures of Regulation with Emphasis on Radiological Risk Management (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
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The study group Environmental Standards' established in 1987 as an
expert panel of the German Academy of Sciences and Technology in
Berlin compiled this book on setting environmental standards that
has been literally written and authorized by all group members. The
group consisted of eleven individuals representing the following
disciplines: physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, law,
psychology, and sociology/economics. Firstly, Environmental
Standards summarizes the state of the art in each discipline with
respect to the topic of environmental standards, limited to one
major case study: the effects of ionizing radiation. Within the
subject of ionizing radiation and its impacts, the book intends to
provide a complete and accurate picture of the various health
impacts and environmental problems. Second, this volume provides
guidelines for a desirable procedure that would guarantee the
inclusion of all scientific data and reasoning but would also
assure the incorporation of social costs, cultural values and
individual preferences in the decision making process. The study
includes a section that describes an analytic framework for
collective decision making under uncertainty and a section on
institutional innovations necessary to implement a procedure for
integrating scientific input and rational decision making. The
procedural suggestions are focused around a new environmental
institution that is empowered to initiate and promulgate new
standards on the basis of a present process of linking scientific
data with social values and preferences. The volume represents a
rare example of integrating the natural and social sciences and
developing consistent and complete procedural guidelinesfor
standard setting in a democratic society.
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