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Risk regulation at risk : restoring a pragmatic approach / Sidney A. Shapiro, Robert L. Glicksman.
LIBRA KF3775 .S53 2003
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shapiro, Sidney A., 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental law--United States.
- Environmental law.
- Risk assessment.
- Technology--Risk assessment.
- United States.
- Environmental risk assessment--United States.
- Environmental risk assessment.
- Technology--Risk assessment--United States.
- Technology.
- Risk assessment--United States.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 271 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford Law and Politics, [2003]
- Summary:
- Legislation to reduce human and environmental injury before it occurs has, in the last two decades, come under increasing attack by critics who employ utilitarian philosophy and cost-benefit analysis. The legislation' s defenders have lacked a unifying theory, which the authors propose should be the American tradition of philosophical pragmatism.
- Contents:
- Pragmatism and risk regulation
- Principles of pragmatic risk regulation
- The structure of risk regulation
- The rationale for risk regulation
- The critique of risk regulation
- Valuation methods
- Regulatory impact analysis requirements
- Pragmatic methods of regulation
- Promoting accountable risk regulation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [215]-265) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804745935
- OCLC:
- 50113904
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