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Over the past two decades, concerns for the societal impacts- whether realized or potential- created by the adoption and application of technologies has both widened and deepened in most industrialized societies. This trend mirrors sharpening public concerns over the risks to human health and safety posed by technological hazards.
This paper is a preliminary report on a study sponsored by the National Science Foundation to conduct a comparative analysis of how technological risks are being managed in the United States and Japan. This paper examines one of the four case areas, airborne lead, which the study is currently investigating and outlines similarities and differences in the way both countries are managing risks.
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Kawamura, K., Boroush, M., Ikeda, S., Lynes, P.F., Minor, M. (1987). Managing Technological Risks: U.S. and Japanese Approaches. In: Covello, V.T., Lave, L.B., Moghissi, A., Uppuluri, V.R.R. (eds) Uncertainty in Risk Assessment, Risk Management, and Decision Making. Advances in Risk Analysis, vol 4. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5317-1_4
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