Titlebook: Risk Evaluation and Management; Vincent T. Covello,Joshua Menkes,Jeryl Mumpower Book 1986 Plenum Press, New York 1986 Institution.environm

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Risk, Relativism, and Rationalityatively greater risk than some other, or as a risk worth taking in view of the expected benefit, or indeed, as a risk one is obliged to take despite the expected harm—all of this depends finally on some system of values within which such assessments can come to be made. And value systems are sociall

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Methods for Comparing the Risks of Technologiesoes not have a widely accepted precise definition or a textbook methodology, it is used in various forms in both personal and public decision making. Such decision making involves the identifying, weighing, and balancing of often uncertain advantages and disadvantages of alternate choices of action.

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Methods for Analyzing and Comparing Technological Hazards. The productivity loss from technology-related illness, death, and pollution is equivalent to 3–6% of the gross national product (GNP). When combined with the cost of private and public sector efforts to prevent and mitigate such losses, the undesired side effects of technology amount to 7–12% of t

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Improving Risk Analysisy decisions. But, current methods of risk assessment are flawed in a number of respects. Risk assessments are costly in time and effort; they often result in vague and unusable estimates; and it is difficult to separate the good ones from the bad ones because the probabilistic predictions are not ob

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Alternatives to Government Regulation for the Management of Technological Risksal mechanisms with the potential to stimulate proper risk management on the part of those who generate risk. These mechanisms commonly operated in a . fashion and, taken together, did provide some incentive for risk management—for example, to avoid future liability or other economic consequences. Th