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Explores the nature of life's risks--how we regulate and measure risks--and discusses carcinogens, the greenhouse effect, highway safety, air travel, nuclear power, and acid rain
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In this admirably balanced study, Lewis, who teaches physics at UC-Santa Barbara, considers how we may best take advantage of technological progress while evaluating, preventing or mitigating its attendant risks. Hard-hitting, though no doom-sayer, the author attacks inertia, greed and popular misconceptions in a lively colloquial style, criticizing the efforts of scientists, government, industry and media in accounting for and managing environmental pollution. He also offers informed speculation on nuclear fallout and the greenhouse effect, and strongly advocates increased monitoring of structural and operational safety in public works, buildings, transportation, goods, etc. Better education, Lewis implies, is key to equipping individuals to weigh benefits and risks wisely.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
High technology and ecological crises have brought public attention to the concept of risk; yet we often exaggerate small risks while ignoring significant ones. Lewis, a physicist and expert on risk, clearly describes the principles (and vagaries) of risk perception, measurement, assessment, and management, and then applies them to topics such as transportation safety, global warming, chemical toxicity, nuclear power, and low-level radiation. He also addresses probability and statistics. This sane, reasonable, and unique treatment will appeal to educated nonspecialists and is recommended for large public libraries and undergraduate collections.
- Judith Eannarino, George Washington Univ. Lib., Washington, D.C.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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