Risk Evaluation and Management

1. Risk Management

   1. The Political and Institutional Setting for Risk Analysis

      • Michael E. Kraft

      Pages 413-434

   2. The Management of Risk

      • Rae Zimmerman

      Pages 435-460

   3. Approaches to Risk Management

      • Lester B. Lave

      Pages 461-487

   4. Consent and the Justification of Risk Analysis

      • Douglas MacLean

      Pages 489-500

2. Overview of Risk Evaluation Management

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 501-501

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   2. Science and Analysis

      • John D. Graham, Howard Raiffa, James W. Vaupel

      Pages 503-518

   3. Risk Analysis and Risk Management

      • Vincent T. Covello, Jeryl Mumpower

      Pages 519-540

3. Back Matter

   Pages 541-544

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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.

• Institution
• environment
• evaluation
• health
• safety

• Division of Policy Research and Analysis, Policy Sciences Section, National Science Foundation, Washington, USA

  Vincent T. Covello

• National Science Foundation, Washington, USA

  Joshua Menkes

• Department of Public Administration, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, USA

  Jeryl Mumpower

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