In the chamber of risks : understanding risk controversies / / William Leiss.

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Year of Publication:2001
Language:English
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Physical Description:xv, 388 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Risk issue management
  • Frankenfoods; or, the trouble with science
  • Cellular telephones
  • MMT, a risk management masquerade
  • Regulating nuclear power: the mismanagement of public consultation in Canada / Michael D. Mehta
  • Environment's x-file: pulp mill effluent regulation
  • Between expertise and bureaucracy: trapped at the interface of science and policy
  • The CEPA soap opera
  • Voluntary instruments / Eric Darier and Deborah VanNijnatten
  • Tobacco uncontrolled
  • Into the maze of moral risks
  • Towards competence in risk issue management
  • Appendix: providing independent expert advice to government and the public.