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

  • Leiss, William, 1939-
Date:
[2001], ©2001
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Publication/Creation

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2001], ©2001.

Physical description

xv, 388 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 / Éric 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.

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    HD30.255 2001L44i
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ISBN

  • 0773522387
  • 0773522468