In the chamber of risks [electronic resource] : understanding risk controversies / William Leiss.

By: Leiss, William, 1939-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2001Description: xv, 388 p. : illSubject(s): Industrial management -- Environmental aspects -- Canada -- Case studies | Risk management -- Canada -- Case studies | Environmental policy -- Canada -- Case studies | Health risk assessment -- Canada -- Case studies | Environmental risk assessment -- Canada -- Case studies | Risques pour la sante -- Evaluation -- Canada -- Cas, Etudes de | Environnement -- Evaluation du risque -- Canada -- Cas, Etudes de | Gestion du risque -- Canada -- Cas, Etudes de | Environnement -- Protection -- Politique gouvernementale -- CanadaGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 363.17/2/0971 LOC classification: HD30.255 | .L444 2001Online resources: Click to View
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 / Eric 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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-383) and index.

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 / Eric 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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