The science of bureaucracy : : risk decision making and the US Environmental Protection Agency / / David Demortain.
How the US Environmental Protection Agency designed the governance of risk and forged its legitimacy over the course of four decades. The US Environmental Protection Agency was established in 1970 to protect the public health and environment, administering and enforcing a range of statutes and progr...
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Superior document: | Inside technology |
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Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge : : The MIT Press,, [2020] |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Inside technology.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (452 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Risk sciences : expertise for decision making and dispute
- The invention of quantitative risk assessment
- Prioritizing toxics : the prehistory of risk management
- Inventing the risk assessment-risk management framework
- Ruckelshaus and risk : representing the EPA
- Risk management : the EPA as a decision making system
- Designing a science for decisions
- The rise and fall of comparative risk assessment
- Scientization and the reform of the risk assessment-risk management framework
- Beyond the risk paradigm.