Title: Hazards :
Authors: National Academy of Engineering.; Symposium on Hazards: Technology and Fairness
Date: 1986
Publisher: National Academy Press,
Physical description: viii, 225 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: T
Abstract: "In the burgeoning literature on technological hazards, this volume is one of the best," states Choice in a three-part approach, it addresses the moral, scientific, social, and commercial questions inherent in hazards management. Part I discusses how best to regulate hazards arising from chronic, low-level exposures and from low-probability events when science is unable to assign causes or estimate consequences of such hazards; Part II examines fairness in the distribution of risks and benefits of potentially hazardous technologies; and Part III presents practical lessons and cautions about managing hazardous technologies. Together, the three sections put hazard management into perspective, providing a broad spectrum of views and information. The papers in this volume define some important issues in hazard management that are emerging during this national reexamination of our environmental policies. The authors urge the reader to recognize that successful management of technological hazards increasingly depends on resolution of these issues.
Contents: Contents: Papers based on the Symposium on Hazards: Technology and Fairness; held June 3-4, 1985.
Notes: Consists of papers based on the Symposium on Hazards: Technology and Fairness, held June 3-4, 1985.
Subject headings (LCSH): Health risk assessment--Congresses.; Risk--Congresses.; Technology assessment--Congresses.; Technology--Risk assessment--Congresses