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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leiss, William, 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Industrial management--Environmental aspects--Canada--Case studies.

Industrial management.

Risk management--Canada--Case studies.

Risk management.

Environmental policy--Canada--Case studies.

Environmental policy.

Health risk assessment--Canada--Case studies.

Health risk assessment.

Environmental risk assessment--Canada--Case studies.

Environmental risk assessment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (404 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The essential problem is the failure to recognize that controversies over risks are "normal events" in modern society and as such will be with us for the foreseeable future. Three key propositions define these events: risk management decisions are inherently disputable; public perceptions of risk are legitimate and should be treated as such; the public needs to be intensively involved in the processes of risk evaluation and management. Leiss and his collaborators chronicle these organizational risks in a set of detailed case studies on genetically modified foods, cellular telephones, the notorious fuel additive MMT, pulp mill effluent, nuclear power, toxic substances legislation, tobacco, and the new type of "moral risks" associated with genetics technologies such as cloning. Contributors include Debora L. Van Nijnatten (Sir Wilfred Laurier University), Michael D. Mehta (University of Saskatchewan), Stephen Hill (University of Calgary), Éric Darier (Greenpeace), Greg Paoli (Decisionalysis Risk Consultants, Inc.), and Peter V. Hodson (Queen's University).

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-383) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85952-8

9786612859526

0-7735-6951-0

OCLC:

180773066