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Risk vs. Risk: Tradeoffs in Protecting Health and the Environment

By Cass R. Sunstein , John D. Graham , Jonathan Baert Wiener

Book information

Year
1997
ISBN
0674773071, 9780674773073, 9780674037878
Open Library ID
OL9729006M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (14001695 bytes)
Pages
352\353
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

We see the stories in the newspaper nearly every day: a drug hailed as a breakthrough treatment turns out to cause harmful side effects; controls implemented to reduce air pollution are shown to generate hazardous solid waste; bans on dangerous chemicals result in the introduction of even more risky substitutes. Could our efforts to protect our health and the environment actually be making things worse? In Risk versus Risk, John D. Graham, Jonathan Baert Wiener, and their colleagues at the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis marshal an impressive set of case studies which demonstrate that all too often our nation's campaign to reduce risks to our health and the environment is at war with itself.

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