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Baruch Fischhoff, Acceptable Risk: A Conceptual Proposal --- Challenges de minimis risk. Argues that risks ought not be considered apart from benefits and views of those exposed. Also suggests ways to meet the latter goals.... 5.1 (1994).
Richard J. Bord, Ann Fisher & Robert E. O'Connor, Is Accurate Understanding of Global Warming Necessary to Promote Willingness to Sacrifice? --- Suggests potential benefits from having a general public better informed about global climate change.... 8.339 (1997).
Galen E. Cole, Chester L. Pogostin, Bonita J. Westover, Nilka M. Ríos & CeCelia B. Collier, Addressing Problems in Evaluating Health-Relevant Programs through Systematic Planning and Evaluation --- Argues that inconsistent terminology often hinders assessing health program implementation, effectiveness and efficiency -- and proposes a model scheme for conducting such evaluations.... 6.37 (1995).
Clark D. Carrington, An Administrative View of Model Uncertainty in Public Health --- reviews several ways to deal with model uncertainty and evaluates six such methods with regard to, e.g., transparency and cost of execution.... 8.273 (1997).
Branden B. Johnson, Advancing Understanding of Knowledge's Role in Lay Risk Perception --- After examining how knowledge affects lay risk perception, suggests that better understanding can also illuminate experts' hazard knowledge.... 4.189 (1993).
Admassu Tassew, AIDS News as Risk Communication --- Reports a study of AIDS prevention stories in four prestge dailies, two in Europe and two in Africa, over an eight-year period.... 8.79 (1997).
Norman L. Balmer, Alternative Dispute Resolution in Patent Controversies --- Relates how ADR allows attorneys to tailor rules to resolve disputes in light of, e.g., party relationships and internal dynamics. He notes that, for life to go on, having resolution is, itself, an important goal.... 6.145 (1995).
Michael A. Royal, Amalgam Fillings: Do Dental Patients Have a Right to Informed Consent? --- Argues that health risks suggested by (admittedly controversial) studies of amalgam fillings warrant permitting patients to choose alternatives.... 2.141 (1991).
Charles Tomljanovic, Maxine Wright-Walters & Jules Stephensky, Anthropogenic Electromagnetic Fields and Cancer: A Perspective --- reviews a National Research Council report and concludes that, e.g., until a cancer promotion model can be identified for effective testing, the EMF debate will remain open.... 8.287 (1997).
Mary Harris Veeder, Authorial Voice, Implied Audiences and the Drafting of the 1988 AIDS National Mailing --- Based on an analysis of drafts of the 1988 ANM concludes that risk communicators should attend to audience needs rather than competing truth claims.... 4.287 (1993).
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Char J. Word, Anna K. Harding, Gordon R. Bilyard & James R. Weber, Basic Science and Risk Communication: A Dialogue Based Study --- Uses ethnographic analysis of a focus group discussion between scientists and laypersons to study information exchange in risk communication.... 10.231 (1999)
Timothy P. Linkkila & Timothy E. Tracy, Biotechnology Process Patents: Is Special Legislation Needed? --- Reviews events prompting proposed changes to the patent law and argues that pending bills may cause more problems than they solve.... 5.177 (1994).
Michael Greenberg, Dona Schneider & Jim Parry, Brown Fields, a Regional Incinerator and Resident Perception of Neighborhood Quality --- Discusses an extension of research into residential perceptions of neighborhood quality as affected by urban blight and suggests that unwanted facilities may help deteriorate neighborhoods.... 6.241 (1995).
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Herbert Inhaber, Can an Economic Approach Solve the High-Level Nuclear Waste Problem? --- Proposes a noncoercive siting strategy called a reverse Dutch auction.... 2.341 (1991).
Jeannette M. Trauth, A Case Study of Health Risk Communication: What the Public Wants and What it Gets --- Analyzes 40 years of coverage of a major source of pollution by a Pittsburgh newspaper and summarizes a survey used, e.g., to learn citzens need for knowledge.... 5.49 (1994).
Richard M. Lynch & Mary S. Henefin, Causation in Occupational Disease: Balancing Epidemiology, Law and Manufacturer Conduct --- Examines evolution of disease causation theory and its impact on public health, as well as how these relate to the courtroom admissibility of expert opinion evidence.... [.pdf.] 9.259 (1998).
Richard Rich, Robert J. Griffin & Sharon M. Friedman, Introduction: The Challenge of Risk Communication in a Democratic Society --- Reviews key issues in a symposium concerning the relationship between risk communication and public participation.... 10.189 (1999)
L. James Valverde A., Jr., The Cognitive Status of Risk: A Response to Thompson --- Discusses the role of probability theory in risk analysis and management; argues against overemphasis on the distinction between risk subjectivism and risk objectivism.... 2.313 (1991).
John D. Graham & David R. Holtgrave, Coke Oven Emissions: A Case Study of Technology-Based Regulation --- Based on coke oven experience, argues that forcing technology beyond demonstrated competence can be expensive and ineffective.... 1.245 (1990).
Sharon Dunwoody, Community Structure and Media Risk Coverage --- Regards media organizations as community creatures, their accounts to be social constructions, and answers to "Who's right?" to be relative.... 5.193 (1994).
Kopl Halperin, A Comparative Analysis of Six Methods for Calculating Travel Fatality Risk --- Examines alternative calculations of travel fatality and finds, e.g, that commonly reported death rates tend to minimize the relative risk of auto travel.... 4.15 (1993).
John Kadvany, From Comparative Risk to Decision Analysis: Ranking Solutions to Multiple-Value Environmental Problems --- Urges more attention to be given to multiattribute utility and decision analysis to help, e.g., illuminate stakeholder values and generate alternative approaches.... 6.333 (1995).
Adam M. Finkel, Comparing Risks Thoughtfully --- Argues that comparing risks is not impossible or immoral but is nonetheless very difficult. Discusses two major pitfalls before sketching a framework for improving comparative risk assessments.... 7.325 (1996).
Linda-Jo Schierow, Comparison of Environmental Risk Provisions in the 103d Congress --- Provisions of several House and Senate bills, including a proposal for improved risk assessment, are compared in tabular format.... 5.283 (1994).
Judy S. LaKind & Daniel Q. Naiman, Comparison of Predicted and Observed Dioxin Levels in Fish: Implications for Risk Assessment --- Compares sampled and modelled dioxin levels in fish near pulp and paper mill discharges and argues that determination of health risks should be based on sampling.... 4.253 (1993).
Bryan Harris, A Comparison of U.S. and E.U. Product Safety Regulations: A Case Study --- compares government approaches with respect to foods that are combined with, e.g., trinkets -- particularly when likely to be consumed by children.... 8.209 (1997).
Paul B. Thompson & Wesley Dean, Competing Conceptions of Risk --- Recent literature is said to reflect growing acknowledgment of multiple conceptions of risk but often to obscure an important distinction. Building on work of Kristin Shrader-Frechette, explores potential for debate over competing philosophical conceptions of risk.... 7.361 (1996).
Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer & Kevin B. Fitzgerald, Conflicting Views on Fair Siting Processes: Evidence from Austria and the U.S. --- Maintains that, by granting legitimacy to different notions of fairness and building on common values such as responsibility, it is possible to design siting procedures that promote social cohesion, trust and a sense of fair play.... 7.119 (1996).
Dalton G. Paxman, Congressional Risk Proposals --- Relates how an ambitious environmental agenda supported by the Administration and many members of the 103d Congress was ultimately derailed-- and associates this with an ever-growing interest in risk assessment.... 6.165 (1995).
Itzhak Jacoby, Consensus Development at NIH: What Went Wrong? --- Identifies the Science Court as a model for National Institutes of Health consensus development conferences; argues for following that model more closely.... 4.133 (1993).
Tomke Lask, Contesting Legal Procedures of Risk Management in Belgium: A Case Study --- Evaluates legal procedures for dealing with siting in the context of an actual Belgian conflict, and discusses how citizens' dissatisfaction has resulted in increased involvement.... [.pdf.] 9.329 (1998).
Peter W. Huber, Coping with Phantom Risks in the Courts --- Describes "Phantom" risks as those tending to hover indefinitely, never to crystallize; argues that legal procedures should optimally lead to closure and eliminate unwarranted fears.... 6.111 (1995).
Eileen N. Abt, Coping with the Risk of Cancer in Children Living Near Power Lines --- Recounts how public fears, whether or not well-founded, create problems and suggests possible solutions.... 5.65 (1994).
Howard Kunreuther & Paul Slovic, Coping with Stigma: Challenges & Oppotunities --- Discusses several strategies for preventing technological stigma from causing unwarranted bias in public decision making.... 10.269 (1999)
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Thomas G. Field, Jr. & Colleen M. Keegan, Comment: Daubert's Significance --- Explains, e.g., how non-lawyers can overestimate the importance of Daubert.... 4.283 (1993).
John M. Mendeloff, Decision Analysis and FDA Drug Review: A Proposal for "Shadow" Advisory Committees --- Given that FDA seems to acknowledge the utility of sometimes different standards for assessing drug efficacy, proposes a methodology that might, e.g., help assess FDA decisions.... 6.203 (1995).
John M. Gleason, The Decision to Reactivate a First-Generation Soviet Nuclear Power Plant: Conceptual and Decision-Analytic Frameworks --- Explores a variety of factors that led to reopening the Armenian Metsamor facility notwithstanding general agreement that this is unwarranted technologically.... 8.39 (1997).
Seth Tuler & Thomas Webler, Designing an Analytic Deliberative Process for Environmental Health Policy Making in the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex ---using a National Research Council Report as a centerpiece, evaluates the effectiveness of a conceptual approach to risk policy-making.... 10.65 (1999).
Phillip K. Russell, Development of Vaccines to Meet Public Health Needs: Incentives and Obstacles --- Explains how such matters as high costs of regulation, lack of an effective plan for delivery (particularly abroad) and politics can interfere with providing globally needed vaccines.... 7.239 (1996).
Linda-Jo Schierow, Dioxin: Reassessing the Risk --- Briefly summarizes the status of a draft Environmental Protection Agency report reassessing the appropriate treatment of dioxin and describes ongoing intra- and extramural reviews of the reassessment.... 7.7 (1996).
Leonard P. Caccamo, Kimbroe J. Carter, Barbara A. Erickson, William R. Johnson & Edward Kessler, Doctors at Risk: A Problem as Viewed by Decision Analysis --- Uses a case analysis to argue that medical peer review fails to encourage cost effective behavior and may decrease the quality of medical care.... 2.357 (1991).
Ralph M. Perhac, Jr., Comment: Does Risk Aversion Make a Case for Conservatism? --- Argues that risk aversion, alone, does not support the preferability of overstating, as opposed to understating, mean risk.... 7.297 (1996).
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Leslie A. Nieves, Economic Impacts of Noxious Facilities: Incorporating the Effects of Risk Aversion --- Suggests an integrative approach to facilities that elicit public risk aversion and suggests a framework for integrating psychometric and econometric techniques.... 4.35 (1993).
Arthur Kantrowitz, Elitism vs. Checks and Balances in Communicating Scientific Information to the Public --- The father of the Science Court describes his objective in proposing it, his efforts to get a major public test of the concept, and insights gained since 1967.... 4.101 (1993).
Jon F. Merz, An Empirical Analysis of the Medical Informed Consent Doctrine: Search for a Standard of Disclosure --- Evaluates the informed consent doctrine in tort cases and concludes that it is now difficult for physicians to decide what must be disclosed.... 2.27 (1991).
Joseph L. Lakshmanan, An Empirical Argument for Nontechnically Trained Public Members on Technical Advisory Committees: FDA as a Model --- Based on two surveys, compares issue comprehension and attitudes of various types of Food and Drug Administration advisory committee members.... 1.61 (1990).
Janet D. Gough, Environmental Decision Making and Risk Management for Groundwater Systems --- Explores, with an eye to New Zealand, the use of risk management approaches for environmental decision making at strategic, policy, management and operational levels.... 8.155 (1997).
Daniel C. Wigley & Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette, Environmental Racism and Biased Methods of Risk Assessment --- Based on analysis of a risk assessment for a proposed Louisiana uranium enrichment facility, argues that environmental injustice occurs when assessors' scientific methods cause de facto discrimination.... 7.55 (1996).
Linda-Jo Schierow, Environmental Risk Analysis: Proposed Mandates 1993-1998 --- compares Congressional use, or lack thereof, of risk and cost-benefit analysis in environmental legislation promulgated between 1993 and 1998.... 10.177 (1999).
John Martin Gillroy, Environmental Risk and the Traditional Sector Approach: Market Efficiency at the Core of Environmental Law? --- provides an in-depth discussion on the evolution of environmental law and the proposition that market efficiency has been, and still is, at its core.... 10.139 (1999).
Immaculada de Melo-Martin, Ethics and Uncertainty: In Vitro Fertilization and Risks to Women’s Health --- Examines the risks, uncertainties and public policies surrounding in vitro fertilization and women’s health issues.....[.pdf] 9.201 (1998).
Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette, Evaluating the Expertise of Experts --- Maintains that a rigid distinction between risk assessment and risk management is unwise. Concerned about procedural fairness, she argues that the public should have a voice in both.... 6.115 (1995).
Ragnar E. Löfstedt, Evaluation of Siting Strategies: The Case of Two UK Waste Tire Incinerators --- Examines the circumstances that may have contributed to differing outcomes with respect to siting similar facilities in the UK.... 8.63 (1997).
Jeffrey K. Lazo, Jason Kinnell, Toby Bussa, Ann Fisher & Nathan Collamer, Expert and Lay Mental Models of Ecosystems: Inferences for Risk Communication ---evaluates a mental modeling approach to studying differences between lay and expert comprehension of ecosystems.... 10.45 (1999).
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Ragnar E. Löfstedt, Fairness across Borders: The Barsebäck Nuclear Power Plant --- Discusses the escalation of a controversy between Denmark and Sweden over nuclear reactors at Barsebäck in southern Sweden; also discusses research that might lead to possible solutions.... 7.135 (1996).
Benjamin Davy, Fairness as Compassion: Towards a Less Unfair Facility Siting Policy --- Argues that siting efforts fail because of perceived injustices and urges authorities to search more aggressively for ways to avoid injustice and to cope with the anguish of those who may be unavoidably shortchanged..... 7.99 (1996).
Jeffrey S. Lubbers, Federal Regulation: Administrative Procedure -- Constraints and Opportunities --- Surveys public participation federal administrative process, focusing on research sponsored by the Administrative Conference of the United States.... 1.43 (1990).
Christopher J. Harnett, Federal Technology Transfer: Should We Build Subarus in Bethesda? --- Argues that implementation of policies for encouraging commercial exploitation of federally-funded biomedical research threatens basic science in America.... 1.313 (1990).
Barbara Ruhe Grumet, Fertile Women May Now Apply: Fetal Protection Policies After Johnson Controls --- Looks at a U.S. Supreme Court sex discrimination case from a broad legal and social perspective.... 2.261 (1991).
Joanna Burger & Michael Gochfeld, Fish Advisories: Useful or Difficult to Interpret? --- Notes that fish and shellfish offer significant exposure to environmental toxins but finds that consumer knowledge and other factors may limit efforts to control risk in urban populations.... 7.23 (1996).
Douglas J. Crawford-Brown & Kenneth G. Brown, A Framework for Assessing the Rationality of Judgments in Carcinogenicity Hazard Identification --- Argues that current guideline lack a philosophically rigorous framework and presents an alternative to attend to the process of reasoning towards carcinogenicity judgments..... 8.307 (1997).
G Lillian Trettin, Catherine Musham & Richard Jablonski, Genetic Monitoring in the Workplace: A Tool Not a Solution --- differentiate between genetic monitoring and screening, and discuss the potential risks and benefits of predictive testing technologies.... 10.31 (1999).
Kate H. Murashige, Genome Research and Traditional Intellectual Property Protection -- A Bad Fit? --- Addresses the need for a patent system more closely tailored to the needs of biotechnology. For example, the obviousness requirement may interfere with using patents to recoup high costs of work when it could arguably be done by researchers of ordinary skill.... 7.231 (1996).
Sharon F. DiPaolo, Getting through the Door: Threshold Procedural Considerations in Right-to-Die Litigation --- Explains how judges may use mootness, ripeness and standing to avoid getting involved in right-to-die cases. Argues that this may interfere with private decision making and be counterproductive.... 6.59 (1995).
William O. Hennessey, The Greening of Technology Transfer: A Conference Summary --- Briefly reports on an international conference that explored the relationship between patent and other intellectual property laws and those designed to protect the environment and maintain biodiversity.... 6.87 (1995). Several other documents related to that conference are also online at this site.
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Robert A. Stallings, Hindsight, Organizational Routines and Media Risk Coverage --- Describes how journalists explain catastrophes by coupling them with flaws in human organizations.... 5.271 (1994).
Hans Mathias Kepplinger, Historical Notes on German Press Coverage of Technology --- Accounts for increased negativism in German media coverage of technology by pointing to changes in journalists role definitions and attitudes.... 5.213 (1994).
Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette, How Some Risk Frameworks Disenfranchise the Public --- Responds to a prior characterization of her work.... 8.1 (1997).
Jeffrey N. Gibbs, The Human Genome, FDA and Product Liability --- Describes risks to innovators associated with FDA regulations. Also points out how developers and marketers of products based on human genome research face such risks both before and after marketing.... 7.267 (1996).
Christopher J. Harnett, The Human Genome Project and the Downside of Federal Technology Transfer --- Argues that emphasizing technology transfer at federal institutions will interfere with basic research.... 5.151 (1994).
Jessica Sanchez & Joanna Burger, Hunting and Exposure: Estimating Risk and Future Use at Nuclear Production Sites --- Advocates specific criteria for informed decisions about the future use of contaminated nuclear sites; also compares the implications of official recommendations for one site with results from a study.....[.pdf] 9.109 (1998).
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William S. Pease, Identifying Chemical Hazards for Regulation: The Scientific Basis and Regulatory Scope of California's Proposition 65 List of Carcinogens and Reproductive Toxicants --- Reviews the the legislative, regulatory and scientific origins of Proposition 65 and suggests better ways to choose future regulatory targets in California and elsewhere.... 3.127 (1992).
Brian C. Cunningham, Impact of the Human Genome Project at the Interface between Patent and FDA Laws --- Stresses the broad scope of biotechnological innovations. Besides endorsing the need for a new oversight commission to deal with potential social issues, suggests, for example, that some products should be treated like biologics rather than new drugs.... 7.253 (1996).
Elke Schneider, Bettina Oppermann & Ortwin Renn, Implementing Structured Participation for Regional Level Waste Management Planning --- Presents a German case study of well-structured public participation incorporated into formal decision-making....[.pdf.] 9.379 (1998).
Joakim Ramsberg & Lennart Sjöberg, The Importance of Cost and Effectiveness for Attitudes toward Lifesaving Interventions --- Presents the results of a study that evaluates Swedish attitudes about risks and corresponding lifesaving interventions.... [.pdf.] 9.271 (1998).
Juanita V. Field, Kenneth Boehm, Kevin Vincent, Jessica Sullivan & Brady Serafin, Individual Control of Risk: Seat Belt Use, Subjective Norms and the Theory of Reasoned Action --- Factor analysis of collected data supports the theory that intention is a major behavior determinate but does not show that seat belt scenarios influence intention.... 4.329 (1993).
Kenneth Boehm, John Keating, Karl Pfefferkorn, Audra Pfeltz, Brady Serafin, Jessica Sullivan, Karen Thode, Kevin Vincent & Juanita Field, Individual Response to Risk as a Function of Normative Social Pressure: A Pilot Study of Seat Belt Use --- Tries to clarify variables influencing behavior when risk is substantial and subject to individual control. Also reports on a pilot study of seat belt use.... 3.199 (1992).
Mary R. English & Robert B. Inerfeld, Institutional Controls for Contaminated Sites: Help or Hazard? --- discusses the different institutional controls available to control long-term site remediation of hazardous waste to prevent exposure to residual contamination.... 10.121 (1999).
Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer & Ragnar E. Löfstedt, Introduction to IIASA Fairness and Siting Symposium --- Notes that, while there is no recipe for successful siting, critical ingredients are identified in that symposium issue.... 7.95 (1996).
Christoph Rehman-Sutter, Involving Others: Toward an Ethical Concept of Risk --- Argues for a juridical concept of risk as it relates to an ethic of care; also contrasts that view with traditional economic risk analysis.....[.pdf] 9.119 (1998).
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Scott F. Eaton, Legislative Oversight of Administrative Rule Making in New Hampshire --- Examines legislative oversight of agencies in a small state and discusses ways to increase public scrutiny of rules and public participation in rule making.... 1.131 (1990).
Allan Mazur & Kevin Jacobson, Looking Back: Cyclamate ---second in a series of comments re-evaluating hazards identified in the 1950s and 60s.... 10.95 (1999).
Allan Mazur & Jennifer Bretsch, Looking Back: Synthetic Turf and Football Injuries --- first in a series of comments re-evaluating hazards identified in the 1950s and 60s.... 10.1 (1999).
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Jonathan Baert Wiener, Managing the Iatrogenic Risks of Risk Management --- Analogizing to concerns that led the practice of medicine to shift from a specialist to a team-based approach, suggests that public and environmental health objectives would be better served if, e.g., regulatory jurisdiction were less atomized.....[.pdf] 9.39 (1998).
Patricia A. McPartland, Mandatory Continuing Education: Does it Really Protect Society from Incompetent Health Professionals? --- Argues that continuing education requirements are needed for professionals whose fields of expertise are growing rapidly.... 1.329 (1990).
Ute J. Dymon, Mapping -- The Missing Link in Reducing Risk Under SARA III --- Explains how maps can, e.g., hasten effective community responses to natural and artificial hazards and laments widespread failure to prepare and use hazard maps more extensively.... 5.337 (1994).
Hans Peter Peters, Mass Media as an Information Channel and Public Arena --- Proposes that several functions of mass media compete and that attempts to improve risk coverage must avoid optimizing one at the expense of others.... 5.241 (1994).
Peter M. Sandman, Mass Media and Environmental Risk: Seven Principles --- Suggests that, when spokespersons for risk sou rces are inept in conveying their messages, they and we pay heavily for their mistakes.... 5.251 (1994).
Thomas G. Field, Jr., Maximizing the Return from Genome Research --- Introduces and explains the origins of a human genome symposium.... 5.95 (1994).
Thomas H. Pigford, Maximum Individual & Vicinity-Average Dose for a Geologic Repository Containing Radioactive Waste --- Explains the basis for his strong dissent to an NAS report on Yucca Mountain.... 8.9 (1997).
Sharon M. Friedman, The Media, Risk Assessment and Numbers: They Don't Add Up --- Argues that, for risks to be reported accurately, journalism educators must help their students understand science, numbers and statistics.... 5.203 (1994).
Sharon M. Friedman, Megan A. Fitzpatrick & Brenda P. Egolf, Media Coverage of EPA's Draft Dioxin Reassessment Report --- Uses content analysis to examine the utility of news media in democratic decision making.... 10.243 (1999)
Catherine Zwetkoff, Mediation in Environmental Conflicts: The Belgian Methodology --- Analyzes the effectiveness and feasibility of traditional ADR techniques for resolving Belgian environmental disputes.... [.pdf.] 9.361 (1998).
Paul J. Ossenbruggen, A Method of Identifying Hazardous Highway Locations Using the Principle of Individual Lifetime Risk --- Presents a scientific framework for identifying hazardous highway locations that may be more easily understood by non-scientists and has potential for comparing highway with other risks to health.....[.pdf] 9.83 (1998).
Caron Chess, A Model of Organizational Responsiveness to Stakeholders --- Explores the relationship between risk management and risk communication and its affect on an organization/stakeholder relationship.... 10.257 (1999)
Susan R. Poulter, Monte Carlo Simulations in Environmental Risk Assessment -- Science, Policy and Legal Issues --- Notes that agencies should anticipate judicial requirements for justification of Monte Carlo simulations and, meanwhile, should consider, e.g., whether their use will make risk assessment policy choices more opaque or apparent.....[.pdf] 9.7 (1998).
Andrew F. Fritzsche, Comment: The Moral Dilemma in the Social Management of Risks --- Offers data seen as demonstrating that irrational fears can lead to grotesque imbalances in efforts to prevent fatalities.... 7.291 (1996).
Sven Ove Hansson, The Moral Significance of Indetectable Effects ---reassesses Parfit's fifth "mistake in moral mathematics".... 10.101 (1999).
Seth Tuler, Gary E. Machlis & Roger E. Kasperson, Mountain Goat Removal in Olympic National Park: A Case Study of the Role of Organizational Culture in Individual Risk Decisions and Behavior --- Argues that organizational culture may lead to individuals' acceptance of potential costs otherwise exceeding expected benefits.... 3.317 (1992).
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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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