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Risk Analysis

Prospects and Opportunities

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Editors:
  1. Constantine Zervos

    1. Food and Drug Administration, USA

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  2. Kathleen Knox

    1. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, USA

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  3. Lee Abramson

    1. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, USA

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  4. Rob Coppock

    1. National Academy of Sciences, USA

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Part of the book series: Advances in Risk Analysis (AIRA, volume 8)

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Table of contents (68 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Plenary: Twenty Year Retrospective on 1969 Science Paper of C. Starr, “Social Benefit vs. Technological Risk”

    • Chauncey Starr
    Pages 1-5

  3. Proposition 65: Risk Communication and Regulatory Policy

    • Brenda Nordenstam
    Pages 7-15

  4. Societal Acceptance of Controversial Facilities: The Role of Two Public Participation Strategies—Negotiation and Risk Communication

    • Amy K. Wolfe
    Pages 17-24

  5. Liability and the Economic Risks of Genetically Engineered Microbial Agents in Agriculture

    • Beverly Fleisher
    Pages 25-35

  6. A Method for Ranking the Severity of Foodborne Illnesses

    • Josephine Mauskopf, A. Scott Ross
    Pages 37-43

  7. A Graphical Display of Risk Information

    • Stephen L. Brown, Joseph V. Rodricks
    Pages 45-53

  8. Comparing Human and Animal Cancer Risk Models Using Multistage Theory: Exponential vs. Relative vs. Additive Risk

    • Robert N. Brown, Carol Brignoli Gable, Linda K. Tollefson, Janet A. Springer, Ronald J. Lorentzen
    Pages 55-63

  9. Application of Ridge Regression and Principal Component Analysis to Specialty Glass Data for Encapsulation of Nuclear Waste

    • V. S. Arakali
    Pages 65-74

  10. The Use of Probabilistic Risk Assessment in Emergency Response Planning for Nuclear Power Plant Accidents

    • Robert L. Goble, Gordon R. Thompson
    Pages 75-84

  11. Risk Tracers: Surrogates for Assessing Health Risks

    • Sylvia A. Edgerton
    Pages 85-92

  12. Science Advisory Board’s Judgments in the Assessment of the Risk of Environmental Contaminants

    • C. Richard Cothern
    Pages 93-101

  13. The Impact of Risk Management Legislation on Small Counties

    • Raymond F. Boykin
    Pages 103-106

  14. Community-Level Use of Risk Analysis: A Case Study

    • D. Amaral, R. Hetes, F. Lynn, D. Austin
    Pages 107-116

  15. Diffusion of Emergency Warning: Comparing Empirical and Simulation Results

    • George O. Rogers, John H. Sorensen
    Pages 117-134

  16. A Comparison of Successful and Unsuccessful Public Involvement: A Practitioner’s Viewpoint

    • James L. Creighton
    Pages 135-141

  17. Elicitation of Natural Language Representations of Uncertainty Using Computer Technology

    • Bruce Tonn, Richard Goeltz, Cheryl Travis
    Pages 143-152

  18. Social Conflict Assessment in the Design of Risk Management Systems

    • Michael L. Poirier Elliott
    Pages 153-165

  19. A New Limit-Line Approach to Compare Large Scale Societal Accidents

    • Hector A. Munera, George Yadigaroglu
    Pages 167-177

  20. Beyond Risk Analysis: Aspects of the Theory of Individual Choice Under Risk

    • Michael D. Weiss
    Pages 179-185
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About this book

This volume of the series Advances in Risk Analysis consists of papers presented at the 1988 Annual Meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis, which was held October 30 through November 2 at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC. The papers span the gamut of the increasing number of risk assessment topics addressed by the Society since it held its fIrst annual meeting in June 1981, also in Washington DC. Organized to promote interdisciplinary analyses, the Society approaches risks from three broad perspectives: (1) the impact of various risks on the health of the world's populations and on the environment; (2) the social and political implications of specifIc risks, and (3) the management and reduction of risks through the development of a risk analysis methodology and corresponding data bases. The papers included in this volume typify these three approaches and illustrate their interdependence. For example, both cancer and noncancer health risks are examined for a variety of situations that exist within society. The public's perception of risks and the correlation between that perception and the acceptance or nonacceptance of certain risks is also addressed. In addition, the progress to date on predicting and quantifying specifIc risks, including the risks associated with the construction and use of large engineered systems, is reported. Included among the papers are several dealing with recent current issues, such as the impact of California's Proposition 65, hazardous waste disposal, and chemical accidents.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Food and Drug Administration, USA

    Constantine Zervos

  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, USA

    Kathleen Knox

  • Nuclear Regulatory Commission, USA

    Lee Abramson

  • National Academy of Sciences, USA

    Rob Coppock

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Risk Analysis

  • Book Subtitle: Prospects and Opportunities

  • Editors: Constantine Zervos, Kathleen Knox, Lee Abramson, Rob Coppock

  • Series Title: Advances in Risk Analysis

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0730-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1991

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-44113-4Published: 31 January 1992

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-0732-5Published: 29 June 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-0730-1Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 767

  • Topics: Pharmacology/Toxicology, Public Health, Epidemiology, Environmental Management

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