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  • - Integrating Science, Precaution and Public Involvement
     
    1.146,95 kr.

    This book offers a governance framework for achieving greater integration of science, precaution and public involvement for European food safety. The framework gives practical advice to reconcile complex and conflicting food safety demands.

  • af Cristina Florio, Monika Wieczorek-Kosmala, Philip Shrives & mfl.
    1.775,95 kr.

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    1.999,95 kr.

    Public experience with risk communication differs greatly from country to country in Europe and there has been little opportunity for the transfer of experience and learning between countries. Technical and philosophical introductions to risk communication and risk management and research in risk communication are given.

  • - Community Ties, Market Mechanisms, and Governance
     
    1.117,95 kr.

    Grounded in theories of risk mitigation and empirical research, the book provides practical guidance for decision makers along with future research directions for scholars. The Asian region is highly prone to natural disasters which devastate large and mostly poor populations.

  • - The State of the Art
     
    1.099,95 kr.

    In recent years there has been substantial interest in benefits assessment methods, especially as these methods are used to assess health, safety, and environmental issues.

  • - Strategic Directions
     
    1.684,95 kr.

    The papers in this volume integrate results from current research efforts in earthquake engineering with research from the larger risk assessment community.

  • - Strategic Directions
     
    1.693,95 kr.

    The papers in this volume integrate results from current research efforts in earthquake engineering with research from the larger risk assessment community.

  • - Essays on Risk Selection and Perception
     
    920,95 kr.

    But before action can be taken to control, reduce, or eliminate these risks, decisions must be made about which risks are important and which risks can safely be ignored.

  • - Evaluating Models for Environmental Discourse
     
    2.171,95 kr.

    An issue facing the citizens and governments of modern democracies is the direct participation of the public in the solution of environmental problems. This text provides a basis for the evaluation of models for envrionmental discourse which covers eight regions from North America and Europe.

  • - Successes and Failures in Six Countries
    af A. Vari, Patricia Reagan-Cirincione & J.L. Mumpower
    562,95 kr.

    They vary widely in the approaches they have adopted to LLRW management, the institutional structures developed for managing the siting process, the means used to involve stakeholders and technical experts in the facility siting process and the amount and type of data used in making decisions.

  • - International Perspectives
     
    2.178,95 kr.

    Risk communication: the evolution of attempts Risk communication is at once a very new and a very old field of interest.

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    1.671,95 kr.

    While there are many instances in which technological advance occurs without adverse consequences (and in fact, yields tremendous benefits), frequently the advent of a major innovation brings a wide array of unforeseen and (to some) undesirable effects.

  • - A History of the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant
    af D.P. McCaffrey
    1.678,95 kr.

    Admiral Lewis Strauss, the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, stated that atomic power would generate electricity "too cheap to meter" (A statement that, according to Brookhaven National Laboratories' physicist Herbert Kouts, immediately "caused consternation among his technical advisors" [Kouts, 1983: 3)).

  • - A Survey of Empirical Studies
     
    1.675,95 kr.

    Cross-Cultural Risk Perception demonstrates the richness and wealth of theoretical insights and practical information that risk perception studies can offer to policy makers, risk experts, and interested parties.

  • - Integrating Science, Precaution and Public Involvement
     
    1.332,95 kr.

    This book offers a governance framework for achieving greater integration of science, precaution and public involvement for European food safety. The framework gives practical advice to reconcile complex and conflicting food safety demands.

  • - Decision Support Modelling with Morphological Analysis
    af Tom Ritchey
    1.109,95 kr.

    This book presents the history and theory of General Morphological Analysis (GMA) and describes how it is used to develop interactive, non-quantified inference models. It features case studies that illustrate the application of GMA.

  • - Concepts, Guidelines and Applications
    af Terje Aven & Ortwin Renn
    1.602,95 - 1.784,95 kr.

    This comprehensive and accessible guide to risk assessment, management and governance approaches the topic from two angles, explaining new insights and enabling a synthesis of the engineering, statistical and social science perspectives on risk management.

  • - The State of the Art
     
    1.330,95 kr.

    In recent years there has been substantial interest in benefits assessment methods, especially as these methods are used to assess health, safety, and environmental issues.

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    1.713,95 kr.

    While there are many instances in which technological advance occurs without adverse consequences (and in fact, yields tremendous benefits), frequently the advent of a major innovation brings a wide array of unforeseen and (to some) undesirable effects.

  • - A Survey of Empirical Studies
     
    1.720,95 kr.

    Cross-Cultural Risk Perception demonstrates the richness and wealth of theoretical insights and practical information that risk perception studies can offer to policy makers, risk experts, and interested parties.

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    1.753,95 kr.

    Public experience with risk communication differs greatly from country to country in Europe and there has been little opportunity for the transfer of experience and learning between countries. Technical and philosophical introductions to risk communication and risk management and research in risk communication are given.

  • - International Perspectives
     
    2.189,95 kr.

    Risk communication: the evolution of attempts Risk communication is at once a very new and a very old field of interest.

  • - A History of the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant
    af D.P. McCaffrey
    1.726,95 kr.

    Admiral Lewis Strauss, the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, stated that atomic power would generate electricity "too cheap to meter" (A statement that, according to Brookhaven National Laboratories' physicist Herbert Kouts, immediately "caused consternation among his technical advisors" [Kouts, 1983: 3)).

  • - Policy and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
     
    1.665,95 kr.

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    1.679,95 kr.

    Future Risks and Risk Management provides a broad perspective on risk, including basic philosophical issues concerned with values, psychological issues, such as the perception of risk, the factors that generate risks in current and future technological and social systems, including both technical and organizational factors.

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    1.098,95 kr.

    Quantified Societal Risk and Policy Making is the result of an international workshop on societal risk organized by the Dutch Ministry for Transport, Public Works and Water Management with additional financial support from the Directorate for Transportation (DG VII) of the European Union.

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    1.443,95 kr.

    Quantified Societal Risk and Policy Making is the result of an international workshop on societal risk organized by the Dutch Ministry for Transport, Public Works and Water Management with additional financial support from the Directorate for Transportation (DG VII) of the European Union.

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    1.725,95 kr.

    Future Risks and Risk Management provides a broad perspective on risk, including basic philosophical issues concerned with values, psychological issues, such as the perception of risk, the factors that generate risks in current and future technological and social systems, including both technical and organizational factors.

  • - Evaluating Models for Environmental Discourse
     
    2.179,95 kr.

    A vital issue facing citizens and governments of modern democracies is the direct participation of the public in the solution of environmental problems. This title provides a theoretical and methodological basis for the systematic evaluation of models for environmental discourse.

  • - Policy and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe
     
    1.665,95 kr.

    Provides an overview of the mechanism of policy making, the role of the scientific community, the environmental movements, and the public in risk controversies in Central and Eastern Europe from the 1970s until 1991. This book includes studies by social scientists investigating the many aspects of environmental policy.

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