Handbook for Environmental Risk Decision Making: Values, Perceptions, and Ethics

Front Cover
C. Richard Cothern
CRC Press, Sep 17, 2019 - Law - 416 pages
This handbook describes the broad aspects of risk management involving scientific policy judgment, uncertainty analysis, perception considerations, statistical insights, and strategic thinking. This book presents all the important concepts to enable the reader to "see the big picture." This ability is extremely important - it allows the decision ma
 

Contents

Values and Value Judgments in Ecological Health Assessments
Environmental Risk Conflicts in a World of Science Values and Blind Spots
ISSUES IN ENVIRONMENTAL RISK DECISION MAKING
Introduction to Issues in Environmental Risk Decision Making
Impact of Subjectivity on Objectivity
Rediscovering the Role of Public Health in Environmental Decision Making
Telling the Public the Facts or the Probable Facts About Risks
The Urgent Need to Integrate Ethical Considerations into Risk Assessment Procedures
Moral Values in Risk Decisions
Values and Comparative Risk Assessment
Combining Data on Value Judgments
Ethical Theory and the Demands of Sustainability
Value Judgments Involved in Verifying and Validating Risk Assessment Models
The Stewardship Ethic Resolving the Environmental Dilemma
Introduction to the Commentary Section
Origin and Development

Balancing Risks Costs and Benefits Fairly Across
Introduction to Quantitative Issues
Environmental Ethics and Human Values

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

About the author (2019)

C. Richard Cothern, Ph.D., is presently with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Center for Environmental Statistics Development Staff. He has served as the Executive Secretary of the Science Advisory Board at the U.S. EPA and as their National Expert on Radioactivity and Risk Assessment in the Office of Drinking Water. In addition, he is a Professor of Management and Technology at the University of Maryland’s University College and an Associate Professorial Lecturer in the Chemistry Department of the George Washington University. Dr. Cothem has authored over 80 scientific articles including many related to public health, the environment, and risk assessment. He has written and edited 14 books, including such diverse topics as science and society, energy and the environment, trace substances in environmental health, lead bioavailability, environmental arsenic, environmental statistics and forecasting, risk assessment, and radon and radionuclides in drinking water. He received his B.A. from Miami University (Ohio), his M.S. from Yale University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba.

Bibliographic information