Safe Enough? Managing Risk and Regulation
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0889752087
ISBN 13
9780889752085
Category
340-369 Law, Administration & Associations
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Publication Year
2000
Publisher
Pages
269
Subject
Health risk assessment. Environmental risk assessment. Risk management.
Biblio Notes
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Laura Jones; Fraser Institute (Vancouver, B.C.)
ISBN: 9780889752085 0889752087
OCLC Number: 44751566
Description: x, 269 pages ; 23 cm
Contents: 1. Risk all around us. Risk aversion: the rise of an ideology. Unknown causes, unknown risks. --
2. Case studies in risk management. Science and policy in the economic assessment of transport regulations. Second hand smoke and cancer: the research evidence. Much ado about (almost) nothing: greenpeace and the allegedly toxic teethers and toys. Genetically engineered angst: from Frankenstein to Frankenfoods. --
3. Too safe? Progress at risk: using the precautionary principle as a standard for regulatory policy. Dying too soon: how cost-effectiveness analysis can save lives. The reluctance to use cost-effectiveness analysis in regulatory decision-making. Reforming risk regulation in Canada: the next policy frontier?
Responsibility: edited by Laura Jones.
All Authors / Contributors: Laura Jones; Fraser Institute (Vancouver, B.C.)
ISBN: 9780889752085 0889752087
OCLC Number: 44751566
Description: x, 269 pages ; 23 cm
Contents: 1. Risk all around us. Risk aversion: the rise of an ideology. Unknown causes, unknown risks. --
2. Case studies in risk management. Science and policy in the economic assessment of transport regulations. Second hand smoke and cancer: the research evidence. Much ado about (almost) nothing: greenpeace and the allegedly toxic teethers and toys. Genetically engineered angst: from Frankenstein to Frankenfoods. --
3. Too safe? Progress at risk: using the precautionary principle as a standard for regulatory policy. Dying too soon: how cost-effectiveness analysis can save lives. The reluctance to use cost-effectiveness analysis in regulatory decision-making. Reforming risk regulation in Canada: the next policy frontier?
Responsibility: edited by Laura Jones.
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