Risk Evaluation and Management (Contemporary Issues in Risk Analysis) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0306419785 ISBN 13: 9780306419782

Publisher: Springer, 1986

Synopsis

Public attention has focused in recent years on an array of technological risks to health, safety, and the environment. At the same time, responsibilities for technological risk as­ sessment, evaluation, and management have grown in both the public and private sectors because of a perceived need to anticipate, prevent, or reduce the risks inherent in modem society. In attempting to meet these responsibilities, legislative, judicial, regulatory, and private sector institutions have had to deal with the extraordinarily complex problems of assessing and balancing risks, costs, and benefits. The need to help society cope with technological risks has given rise to a new intellectual endeavor: the social and behavioral study of issues in risk evaluation and risk management. The scope and complexity of these analyses require a high degree of cooperative effort on the part of specialists from many fields. Analyzing social and behavioral issues requires the efforts of political scientists, sociologists, decision analysts, management scientists, econ­ omists, psychologists, philosophers, and policy analysts, among others.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 1986
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0306419785
• ISBN 13: 9780306419782
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 556
• Editor: Covello V.T., Menkes Joshua, Mumpower J.L.