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Acceptable evidence : science and values in risk management / edited by Deborah G. Mayo, Rachelle D. Hollander.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Environmental ethics and science policy.
- Environmental ethics and science policy series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Risk management.
- Technology--Risk assessment.
- Technology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1994, c1991.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'Acceptable Evidence' enters into how the discussions of science and values in risk management have largely focused on how values enter into arguments about risks, that is, issues of acceptable risk. Instead, this volume concentrates on how values enter into collecting, interpreting, communicating and evaluating the evidence of risks, that is, issues of the acceptability of evidence of risk.
- Contents:
- Contents; Introduction; I: PERCEIVING AND COMMUNICATING RISK EVIDENCE; II: UNCERTAIN EVIDENCE IN RISK MANAGEMENT; III: PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE; Contributors; Index
- Notes:
- Originally published: 1991.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-756055-5
- 9786610760480
- 1-280-76048-6
- 0-19-802284-0
- 0-19-535832-5
- OCLC:
- 459790576
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