Risk Evaluation and Management (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986)

Public attention has focused in recent years on an array of technological risks to health, safety, and the environment. At the same time, responsibilities for technological risk as sessment, evaluation, and management have grown in both the public and private sectors because of a perceived need to anticipate, prevent, or reduce the risks inherent in modem society. In attempting to meet these responsibilities, legislative, judicial, regulatory, and private sector institutions have had to deal with the extraordinarily complex problems of assessing and balancing risks, costs, and benefits. The need to help society cope with technological risks has given rise to a new intellectual endeavor: the social and behavioral study of issues in risk evaluation and risk management. The scope and complexity of these analyses require a high degree of cooperative effort on the part of specialists from many fields. Analyzing social and behavioral issues requires the efforts of political scientists, sociologists, decision analysts, management scientists, econ omists, psychologists, philosophers, and policy analysts, among others."

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Contemporary Issues in Risk Analysis, 1
Release date:	September 2011
First published:	1986
Editors:	V.T Covello • Joshua Menkes • J.L. Mumpower
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	556
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1986
ISBN-13:	978-1-4612-9245-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Probability & statistics Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Management of land & natural resources Promotions
LSN:	1-4612-9245-X
Barcode:	9781461292456

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