Acceptable Evidence: Science and Values in Risk Management (Environmental Ethics and Science Policy Series)

Acceptable Evidence: Science and Values in Risk Management (Environmental Ethics and Science Policy Series)

by Mayo (Author), Deborah G . Mayo (Editor), RachelleD.Hollander (Editor)

Synopsis

Discussions of science and values in risk management have largely focused on how values enter into arguments about risks, that is, issues of acceptable risk. Instead this volume concentrates on how values enter into collecting, interpreting, communicating, and evaluating the evidence of risks, that is, issues of the acceptability of evidence of risk.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 312
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 01 Jan 1994

ISBN 10: 9780195089
ISBN 13: 9780195089295

Media Reviews
An excellent survey of a number of issues in environmental ethics. * Joel B. Goldsteen, University of Texas at Arlington *