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Carl F. Cranor, The Normative Nature of Risk Assessment: Features and Possibilities--- Argues that appreciating risk assessment to be permeated with normative presuppositions, in contrast with being primarily objective, opens up unforeseen possibilities for risk managment.... 8.123 (1997).

William R. Freudenburg, Nothing Recedes Like Success? Risk Analysis and the Organizational Amplification of Risks --- Argues for systematic studies of behavior to estimate risk, especially when systems with low probabilities of technological failure must be managed for extended periods.... 3.1 (1992).

M. V. Rajeev Gowda & Doug Easterling, Nuclear Waste and Native America: The MRS Siting Exercise --- Provides cross-cultural perspectives on issues of risk perception, equity and policy as they affect nuclear waste storage on Native American sites.... [.pdf.] 9.229 (1998)


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Michelle J. Burke & Victoria M. Schmidt, Old Remedies in the Biotechnology Age: Moore v. Regents --- Examines the case resolving rights to a cell line derived from a patient's spleen and suggests that a just result may be possible without hindering biotechnology research.... 3.219 (1992).

Robert M. Cook-Deegan, Origins of the Human Genome Project --- Recounts some of the scientific and political history leading to controversy about the proper mix of private and public roles in pursuing the fruits of genome research.... 5.97 (1994).

Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette, Overview of the Academy's Yucca Mountain Recommendations --- Criticizes the NAS report on Yucca Mountain.... 8.25 (1997).

Lawrence Rudolph, Overview of Federal Technology Transfer --- Reviews approximately thirteen years of legal and political developments that have contributed to the regulation of federal technology transfer.... 5.133 (1994).

Kate H. Murashige, Overview of Potential Intellectual Property Protection for Biotechnology --- Compares copyrights, patents and trade secrets for recouping R&D investments.... 5.119 (1994).


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Michael S. Brown, Linda Wastila, Carol Baras & Louis Lasagna, Patient Perceptions of Drug Risks and Benefits --- Based on a pilot study, considers, e.g., how much perceptions are affected by patients' understanding of and confidence in regulatory oversight.... 1.203 (1990).

Linda J. Orel, Perceived Risks of EMFs and Landowner Compensation --- Discusses how possibly groundless fears can depress residential property values and argues that the scientific truth should play no role in determining whether or how much landowners should recover.... 6.79 (1995).

Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette, Perceived Risks Versus Actual Risks: Managing Hazards Through Negotiation --- Describes an Expert Judgment Strategy arguing that, because of discounting lay perceptions of risk, it interferes with acceptance of important but risky technologies.... 1.341 (1990).

Beat Hiltbrunner & Andreas Breitsprecher, Comment: Pharmaceutical Risk and the Quality of Life --- Explores the potential for quality of life to be considered in drug evaluation.... 2.19 (1991).

Lennart Sjöberg & Britt-Marie Drottz-Sjöberg, Physical and Managed Risk of Nuclear Waste --- Describes work on the perceived risk of nuclear waste in Sweden. Three levels of waste were studied, and comparisons between the perceptions of the public, politicians and nuclear experts are made.... 8.115 (1997).

Anthony J. Dangelantonio, Physician Assisted Suicide: The Legal and Practical Contours --- Considers medical, legal and other perspectives on patients' right to assistance in dying and attends to legislative initiatives in three states.... 4.55 (1993).

David Okrent, Comment: Pigford, Shrader-Frechette and the NRC Report on Yucca Mountain --- Raises several questions related to, e.g., the uneven application of the goal of intergenerational equity.....[.pdf] 9.1 (1998).

Jeffery A. Foran, Bernard D. Goldstein, John A. Moore & Paul Slovic, Predicting Future Sources of Mass Toxic Tort Litigation --- Describes the efforts of an expert working group to identify potential sources, over the next five to ten years, of future mass litigation and reports on the group's consensus conclusions.... 7.15 (1996).

John M. Gleason & Darold T. Barnum, Predictive Probabilities in Employee Drug-Testing --- Urges caution in attempting to reduce workplace substance abuse. Cites commonly high frequencies of error and discusses the potential for injustice.... 2.3 (1991).

Ann Bostrom, M. Granger Morgan, Jack Adams & Indira Nair, Preferences for Exposure Control of Power-Frequency Fields among Lay Opinion Leaders --- Reports on responses to queries differing in focus on remedial costs about, e.g., the acceptability of options for reducing or eliminating potential health effects.... 5.295 (1994).

William K. Hallman & Abraham H. Wandersman, Present Risk, Future Risk or No Risk? Measuring and Predicting Perceptions of Health Risks of a Hazardous Waste Landfill --- Given that perceived risk is multidimensional, seeks better understanding by focusing on health risks and their temporality..... 6.261 (1995).

Ortwin Renn, Thomas Webler & Hans Kastenholz, Procedural and Substantive Fairness in Landfill Siting: A Swiss Case Study --- Describes the design and implementation of a process for landfill siting seen as an application of procedural equity expressed in discourse ethic philosophy -- one that includes checks to competence and substantive fairness.... 7.145 (1996).

Sheila Jasanoff, Procedural Choices in Regulatory Science --- Compares approaches to science in regulatory decision making. Argues that procedures should be sensitive to the distinctive characteristics of regulatory science.... 4.143 (1993).

Fiona Clark, Keith R. Stamm & Paula Reynolds Eblacas, A Process Model of Risk Communication: The Case of Global Climate Change --- Describes a survey of public media use as it relates to different stages of awareness and concern regarding risk issues.... 10. 197 (1999)

Suzanne A. Sprunger & Gianna Julian-Arnold, Promoting and Managing Genome Innovation --- introduction to a symposium.... 7.197 (1996).

Clifford Scherer, Katherine McComas, Napoleon Juanillo, Jr. & Lisa Pelstring, Promoting Informed Decision-Making: The Role of Message Structure --- Analyzes two empirical explorations of relationships between the composition of risk message and critical thinking within audiences.... 10.209 (1999)

Michael Greenberg, Proving Environmental Inequity in Siting Locally Unwanted Land Uses --- Suggests a way to determinewhether, e.g., waste-to-energy facilities are inequitably sited and urges a broad-based approach to resolving conflicts.... 4.235 (1993).

Jon F. Merz, Psychosocial Risks of Storing and Using Human Tissues in Research --- argues that genetics technology makes it compelling thatresearchers plan more carefully for the collection and disposition of information derived from subjects' tissues and blood.... 8.235 (1997).

Sidney A. Shapiro, Public Accountability of Advisory Committees --- Proposes measures for improving the acceptability of committee advice, including expanded use of nonexperts and improved indications of committee rationale.... 1.189 (1990).

Ortwin Renn, Thomas Webler & Branden B. Johnson, Public Participation in Hazard Management: The Use of Citizen Panels in the U.S. --- Discusses a method of facilitating citizen participation as developed in Germany and its modification and use in the U.S..... 2.197 (1991).

Peter Allen, Public Participation in Resolving Environmental Disputes and the Problem of Representativeness --- Reviews recent efforts to increase public involvement in environmental disputes.... [.pdf.] 9.297 (1998).

Frances M. Lynn, Public Participation in Risk Management Decisions: The Right to Define, the Right to Know and the Right to Act --- Urges public involvement in all stages of risk management.... 1.95 (1990).

Thomas O. McGarity, Public Participation in Risk Regulation --- Describes a spectrum of approaches to public participation in risk regulation.... 1.103 (1990).

Anna Vari, Public Perceptions about Equity and Fairness: Siting Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facilities in the U.S. and Hungary --- Recommends, e.g., that main actors' views about criteria for processes and outcomes be explored and that agreement be negotiated before a siting process is planned.... 7.181 (1996).

Maria Simosi & Peter Allen, Public Perception of Risk Management in Environmental Controversies: A U.K. Case Study --- Focuses on issues arising from an environmental dispute in the context of U.K. environmental decision-making procedures.... [.pdf.] 9.309 (1998).


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David R. Holtgrave, Ronald O. Valdiserri & Gary A. West, Quantitative Economic Evaluations of HIV-Related Prevention and Treatment Services: A Review --- Sets forth an extensive taxonomy of HIV prevention and treatment services and reviews efforts to subject some of them to formal economic evaluation.... 5.29 (1994).


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Dalton G. Paxman, Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette & Thomas G. Field, Jr., Editorial: RAPA and Risk .... 6.95 (1995).

John D. Graham & Elizabeth Richardson, Ranking Risk Inequities --- Comparing recent data on age-adjusted death rates for blacks and whites, the authors attempt to clarify how risk rankings based on inequity might differ from those based on frequency of health impairments and suggest that choosing a method to accommodate both will be difficult.... 6.359 (1995).

Baruch Fischhoff, Ranking Risks --- Considers the role of government in helping citizens manage risks and offers a general procedure for risk ranking and concludes by discussing what can be done with a list of risks.... 6.191 (1995).

H. Gregg Claycamp, Comment: The Rationale for Negligible Risk Exemptions in the Telecommunications Act of 1996: Cellular Phone and Personal Communication System Transmitters --- Explains the adequacy of current legislation and regulation.....[.pdf] 9.101 (1998).

Halina S. Brown, Brian J. Cook, Robert Krueger & Jo Anne Shatkin, Reassessing the History of U.S. Hazardous Waste Disposal Policy -- Problem Definition, Expert Knowledge and Agenda-Setting --- shows that in the 1940's technical consensus began to develop about effects of land-based waste disposal on groundwater degradation but was only slowly reflected in federal legislation.... 8.249 (1997).

Katherine A. McComas & Clifford W. Scherer, Reassessing Public Meetings as Participation in Risk Management Decisions --- Based on a U.S. case study discusses how reliance on public meetings as tools for risk communication in public policy decisions affects relationships between stakeholders and risk managers.... [.pdf] 9.347 (1998).

Gary W. Johnson, Comment: Recognizing Risks and Paying for Risk Reduction --- Endorses a 1990 report of the EPA Science Advisory Board.... 2.189 (1991).

Marc Dohan, Regulate Pollution or Land Use? Managing Toxic Air Contaminants in Southern California --- Explores why a proposal to regulate air toxics would usurp local land use control and was unwarranted.... 4.343 (1993).

Julie A. Roqué, Regulating Air Toxics in Rhode Island: Policy vs. Technical Decisions --- Recounts work in developing standards for airborne carcinogens and argues that care be taken lest key policy decisions be buried by often irrelevant technical details.... 2.123 (1991).

Susan J. Timian & D. Michael Connolly, The Regulation and Development of Bioremediation --- Describes how federal statutes regulating hazardous wastes create both incentives and disincentives for exploiting the large potential of bioremediation. Ultimately, argues for regulation attending more to comparative risks and costs.... 7.279 (1996).

Ross D. Petty, Regulation vs. the Market: The Case of Bicycle Safety (Part I).... 2.77 (1991) (Part II).... 2.92 (1991) --- Describes creation of the Consumer Product Safety Commission's bicycle standard and questions its effectiveness in reducing injuries.

Jeffrey S. Lubbers, The Regulatory Reform Recommendations of the National Performance Review --- Of ten recommendations, four of particular interest are encouraging consensus-based rule making, using ADR in enforcement, ranking risks and improving regulatory science.... 6.153 (1995).

Paul B. Thompson, Reply to Valverde --- Responds to a claim that Thompson has put too much emphasis on the distinction between risk subjectivism and risk objectivism.... 3.49 (1992).

Eleanor Singer & Phyllis M. Endreny, Reporting on Risk: How the Mass Media Portray Accidents, Diseases, Disasters and Other Hazards --- Summarizes a large survey of hazard stories, showing that characteristics of news media affect risk presentation.... 5.261 (1994).

William Lanouette, Reporting on Risk: Who Decides What's News? --- Argues that risks alone do not command national media attention; their implications must first be framed by broader national issues.... 5.223 (1994).

Dorothy Nelkin, Reporting Risk: The Case of Silicone Breast Implants --- Finds journalists to be, if reluctantly, subject to influence and describes their uneasy relationship with scientists in filling a difficult role.... 5.233 (1994).

Itzhak Jacoby, Resolving Medical Controversies --- Explains why emerging technologies must be evaluated expeditiously; also argues that an approach closely following "Science Court" tenets would more uniformly guide practitioners and insurers.... 6.139 (1995).

Sidney A. Shapiro, Resolving Technological Controversies in Regulatory Agencies --- Notes that, e.g., advisory committees may increase technical accuracv at the price of delaving already slow rule making and urges Congress and the courts to provide agencies with broad procedural discretion.... 6.127 (1995).

Dennis J. Paustenbach, Retrospective on U.S. Health Risk Assessment: How Others Can Benefit --- Reviews the scientific underpinnings of about twenty years of health risk assessment practice and their implications for environmental policy here and elsewhere. Also briefly reviews risk-assessment practices outside the U.S.... 6.283 (1995).

Thomas G. Field, Jr., Risk and RAPA on the Internet .... 6.189 (1995).

Joanna Burger, Risk and Recreation: Differences Due to Gender, Age and Education --- explores the differences in risk perception due to gender, age and education with regard to recreation activities on former U.S. Government weapons test sites.... 10.109 (1999).

William E. Hilton, Risk and Value Judgments: A Case Study of the Poison Prevention Packaging Act --- Argues that choices in amending child-resistant packaging regulations are fundamentally normative and should not be obscured by technical issues.... 3.37 (1992).

Richard M. Sedman & Paul W. Hadley, Comment: Risk Assessment and Risk Management: Mending the Schism --- Suggests that having different persons assess and manage risk can be counterproductive.... 3.189 (1992).

John S. Evans, John D. Graham, George M. Gray, Adrienne Hollis, Barry Ryan, Andrew Smith, Mark Smith & Alison Taylor, Risk Assessment and Management: Summary of Workshop to Review an OMB Report --- Reports on a 1990 invitational workshop.... 3.71 (1992).

Michael D. Mehta, Risk Assessment and Sustainable Development: Towards a Concept of Sustainable Risk --- Examines two dominant approaches for managing health and environmental risks and suggests that they would better serve if integrated.... 8.137 (1997).

Donald R. Mattison, Risk Assessment for Developmental Toxicity: Airborne Occupational Exposure to Ethanol and Iodine --- Explains basic steps in fetal risk assessment. Argues that rigorous examination must precede informed choice.... 2.227 (1991).

Branden B. Johnson, Risk Comparisons in a Democratic Society: What People Say They Do and Do Not Want --- Using an exploratory focus group, examines citizen responses to common risk message techniques.... 10.221 (1999)

Shaul Feller & Michael Maharik, Risk Criteria for Approving or Rejecting Field Tests of High-Performance Weapons --- Because details are classsified and participation by affected populations is limited, military test ranges impose difficult challenges for those responsible for their safety. Catalogs some of these challenges and suggests ways to address them.... 7.305 (1996).

Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Risk Estimation and Expert Judgment: The Case of Yucca Mountain --- Challenging expert judgments, argues that 1000 year predictions and permanent disposal of radioactive waste are presently impossible.... 3.283 (1992).

Wim F. Passchier & Wim C. Reij, Risk is More Than Just a Number --- Summarizes efforts by the Health Council of the Netherlands to develop a national risk management approach.... 8.107 (1997).

Frank B. Cross, The Risk of Reliance on Perceived Risk --- Using examples uncommon in risk literature, argues that giving perceived risk undue attention can have adverse social consequences.... 3.59 (1992).

Ilan B. Vertinsky & Donald A. Wehrung, Risk Perception and Drug Safety Evaluation --- Presents a framework for more effective risk communication based on empirical research concerning public risk perceptions and applies it to pharmaceutical regulation.... 2.281 (1991).

Howard Kunreuther, Paul Slovic & Donald MacGregor, Risk Perception and Trust: Challenges for Facility Siting --- Attributes siting failures to, e.g., the erosion of trust in government and industry and to the closely-linked public perceptions of the risks of toxic and nuclear waste.... 7.109 (1996).

Vern R. Walker, Risk Regulation and the "Faces" of Uncertainty --- Addresses the difficulty of regulators' working with potentially inaccurate information and clarifies related aspects of decision making by presenting a taxonomy for the kinds of uncertainty inherent in necessarily incomplete data.....[.pdf] 9.27 (1998).

Paul B. Thompson, Risk Subjectivism and Risk Objectivism: When are Risks Real? --- Questions the foundations of typical two-step risk management processes and suggests that the risk assessment stage is less objective than commonly viewed.... 1.3 (1990).

Jenifer S. Heath, Comment: The Role of Happenstance in Multidisciplinary Education --- Relates personal experience in pursuing multidisciplinary studies.... 2.121 (1991).

Halina S. Brown & Robert L. Goble, The Role of Scientists in Risk Assessment --- Using three familiar risk assessments, offers an alternative to the 1983 National Research Council model for risk assessment methodology.... 1.283 (1990).

Homer O. Blair, The Role of Technologically Trained Corporate Lawyers in Managing Risk --- Relates how technically trained lawyers can help firms avoid harmful situations.... 1.83 (1990).

Ragnar Löfstedt, The Role of Trust in the North Blackforest: An Evaluation of a Citizen Panel Project --- explores the effectiveness of a public participation project conducted in Germany, designed to involve citizens in the siting of municipal waste disposal plants.... 10.7 (1999).

Andrew F. Fritzsche, The Role of the Unconscious in the Perception of Risks --- Argues that our world is too "rational" and that the psychology of the unconscious, as developed by Jung, can be key to understanding responses to hazards and to resolving conflicts that arise in the political management of risks.... 6.215 (1995).

Kopl Halperin & Jim Redman, Route Fatality Risk as a Measure of Travel Death Risk --- Based on a study of auto fatalities in Erie County Pennsylvania, argues that transportation safety could be greatly increased by relatively small expenditures.... 4.1 (1993).


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John D. Graham, The Safety Risks of Proposed Fuel Economy Legislation --- Considering factors influencing auto safety, prior responses to economy requirements and success of safety rules, suggests ways to save both fuel and lives.... 3.95 (1992).

Ann Fisher, Lauraine G. Chestnut, Ruth H. Chapman & Robert D. Rowe, Schools Respond to Risk Management Programs for Asbestos, Lead in Drinking Water and Radon --- Based on a study of three EPA-initiated risk management programs, finds, e.g., state involvement to encourage and tentative programs to discourage cooperation.... 4.329 (1993).

Jon R. Cavicchi, The Science Court: A Bibliography --- Focused and incidental references are listed separately.... 4.171 (1993).

Task Force of the Presidential Advisory Group on Anticipated Advances in Science and Technology, The Science Court Experiment: An Interim Report --- Reprint of a 1976 article from Science proposing a major test of the concept.... 4.179 (1993).

Thomas G. Field, Jr., Comment: The Science Court is Dead; Long Live the Science Court! --- Introduces a twenty-five year retrospective on the Science Court.... 4.95 (1993).

Allan Mazur, The Science Court: Reminiscence and Retrospective --- A self-described agnostic describes his role in seeking a major test for the Science Court and concludes that judges are probably unnecessary.... 4.161 (1993).

Carl F. Cranor, Science Courts, Evidentiary Procedures and Mixed Science- Policy Decisions --- Argues that the potential for science courts to meet social needs in regulating carcinogens is not high and suggests desiderata for application in related areas.... 4.113 (1993).

Carl F. Cranor, Scientific Conventions, Ethics and Legal Institutions --- Demonstrates ways that statistical analyses commonly believed to be quite objective may contain important normative biases.... 1.155 (1990).

Thomas G. Field, Jr., Editorial: Scientific Facts vs. Political Values --- takes exception to a Science editorial critizing the application of FACA to the NAS complex.... 8.207 (1997).

Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette, Scientific Method, Anti-Foundationalism and Public Decisionmaking --- Examines attacks on lay risk assessments and urges that rational policy requires much more accommodation for what the public believes about risk.... 1.23 (1990).

Linda-Jo Schierow, Senator Johnston's Proposals for Regulatory Reform: New Cost-Benefit-Risk Analysis Requirements for EPA? --- Compares provisions designed to improve the development of regulations promulgated by Reagan and Clinton Executive Orders with those in the Johnston Amendments.... 6.1 (1995).

Arthur Kantrowitz, The Separation of Facts and Values --- Maintains that much modern pessimism derives from failure to separate what ts from what ought to be and urges that scientific conflicts be resolved as value neutrally as possible.... 6.105 (1995).

The Honorable Hugh H. Bownes, Should Trial by Jury be Eliminated in Complex Cases? --- Argues that problems involving the use of juries in complex litigation may and should be solved other than by eliminating juries.... 1.75 (1990).

Elaine Alma Draper, Social Issues of Genome Innovation and Intellectual Property --- Focuses on the use of personal information derived from genome research and identifies several potential problems, including access to and control of genetic information, employment discrimination and social stratification. Also recommends possible solutions.... 7.201 (1996).

Timothy Sly, Sources of Epidemiological Equivocacy --- Discusses five sources of uncertainty and ambiguity in health and medical research that can interfere with decision making.... 7.1 (1996).

David W. Gaylor & James J. Chen, Strategy for Cost-Effective Reduction of the Sum of Health Risk Estimates for Exposures to Mixtures of Toxic Substances --- argues that a minimization approach can guide effective use of funds to reduce the sum of estimated risks or the upper limit of the sum of risk estimates for mixtures of chemicals [not online; too difficult to convert complex mathematical expressions into HTML].... 8.225 (1997).

Kris Wernstedt & Robert Hersh, "Through a Lens Darkly" -- Superfund Spectacles on Public Participation at Brownfield Sites --- Discusses the recent trend in brownfield site development against a backdrop of Superfund experience and explore current barriers to public participation.....[.pdf] 9.153 (1998).

Jon F. Merz, Comment: In Support of Huber --- Takes exception to two recent reviews of Galileo's Revenge.... 3.195 (1992).

Todd F. Volyn, James F. Mogan & Lisa M. White, The Supreme Court as Risk Manager: An Analysis of Skinner --- Concludes that the Supreme Court's approval of collecting blood and urine samples from railroad employees over-emphasized technical issues.... 3.243 (1992).

March Sadowitz & John D. Graham, A Survey of Residual Cancer Risks Permitted by Health, Safety and Environmental Policy --- Describes permitted U.S. residual cancer risks, focusing on numerical levels specifically and implicitly authorized by statute or regulation. Also discusses potential changes.... 6.17 (1995).

Galen E. Cole, David R. Holtgrave & Nilka M. Rios, Systematic Development of Trans-Theoretically Based Behavioral Risk Management Programs --- Explains a risk management strategy for changing behaviors, e.g., to lower the risk of AIDS, that is independent of behavioral factor models.... 4.67 (1993).


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Allan Mazur, Technical Risk in the Mass Media --- Introduces and explains the origins of a symposium of the same title.... 5.189 (1994).

Harvey Drucker, Technology Transfer: A View from the Trenches --- Argues that transferring rights in discoveries made through tax-supported research to private entities can contribute to public welfare in many ways.... 5.143 (1994).

Rebecca S. Eisenberg, Technology Transfer and the Genome Project: Problems with Patenting Research Tools --- Suggests the possibility that the greatest social return from genome research will require some discoveries to be in the public domain....5.163 (1994).

Branden B. Johnson, Peter M. Sandman & Paul Miller, Testing the Role of Technical Information in Public Risk Perception --- Finds, e.g., that providing technical detail about health effects may be less useful than keeping citizens current on official's strategies for dealing with problems.... 3.341 (1992).

Elaine M. Ramesh, Time Enough? Consequences of Human Microchip Implantation --- Argues that microchip implantation is possible and suggests that now is the time to consider strategies for preventing potentially grievous intrusion into personal privacy.... 8.373 (1997).

Francine Laden & George M. Gray, Toxics Use Reduction: Pro and Con --- Focusing on Massachusetts and contrasting claimed benefits and shortcomings, examines the success of toxics use reduction and calls for more balanced analysis.... 4.213 (1993).

James F. Short, Jr., Trace Substances, Science and Law: Perspectives from the Social Sciences --- Reviews social science research about perceptions, decisionmaking processes and behaviors of organizations and individuals who try to cope with risk and uncertainty.... 5.319 (1994).


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Patrick D. Kelly, Using Management Techniques to Solve Environmental Problems --- Urges science and engineering societies to attempt to prioritize social problems and focus public awareness (and calls to action) in a more systematic way.... 1.217 (1990).

Michael Thompson, Unsiteability: What Should It Tell Us? --- Argues that if rich countries can effortlessly be rid of noxious wastes, they will not receive signals encouraging better lines of development -- by market, as well as hierarchical and egalitarian, criteria.... 7.169 (1996).


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Ann Bostrom, Vaccine Risk Communication: Lessons from Risk Perception, Decision Making and Environmental Risk Communication Research --- Reviews a rich variety of empirical findings about risk communication and demonstrates how it can contribute to vaccine risk and safety communication.... 8.173 (1997).

Patricia Kocagil, Nadia Demarteau, Ann Fisher & James S. Shortle, The Value of Preventing Cryptospiridium Contamination --- Evaluates the need for preventing illnesses and fatalities caused by Cryptospiridium contamination of water supplies based on the impacts of recent and likely future outbreaks.... [.pdf.] 9.175 (1998).

Theresa L. Byrd, James VanDerslice & Susan K. Peterson, Variation in Environmental Risk Perceptions and Information Sources among Three Communities in El Paso --- Report on a pilot study of environmental risk and sources of environmental information in three socio-economically and culturally distinct communities in Texas.... 8.355 (1997).


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Thomas G. Field, Jr., Which Scientist Do You Believe? Process Alternatives in Technological Controversies --- Conference introduction; argues that those designing processes for tasks originally contemplated by the Science Court proposal should closely consider, e.g., intervening experience with alternative dispute resolution.... 6.97 (1995).

Allan Mazur, Why Do We Worry About Trace Poisons? --- Relates how protests by the political left against nuclear tests and by the political right against fluoridation set the stage for Silent Spring to move the public toward being concerned about latent risks.... 7.35 (1996).

Lennart Sjöberg, World Views, Political Attitudes and Risk Perception --- Questions the Cultural Theory approach to evaluating variance in risk perception; also presents the results of a survey using elements of that and other scales to help explain individual differences in risk perception.....[.pdf] 9.137 (1998).


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