Averting catastrophe
Subtitle: strategies for regulating risky technologies
By: Joseph G. Morone and Edward J. Woodhouse.
Contributors: Woodhouse, Edward J.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Technology -- Risk assessment.; Environmental protection.
Description: Chernobyl, Bhopal, and Love Canal are symbols of the potentially catastrophic risks that go hand in hand with much modern technology. This volume is a non-partisan study of the imperfect but steadily developing system for containing the risks of such technologies as chemicals, nuclear power, and genetic engineering. ... Publisher description.
Notes: A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program.
Bibliography: p. 177-202.
Includes index.