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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784797203321

Titolo

Acceptable evidence [[electronic resource] ] : science and values in risk management / / edited by Deborah G. Mayo, Rachelle D. Hollander

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 1994, c1991

ISBN

0-19-756055-5

9786610760480

1-280-76048-6

0-19-802284-0

0-19-535832-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

Environmental ethics and science policy series

Altri autori (Persone)

HollanderRachelle D

MayoDeborah G

Disciplina

363.1

Soggetti

Risk management

Technology - Risk assessment

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 1991.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; I: PERCEIVING AND COMMUNICATING RISK EVIDENCE; II: UNCERTAIN EVIDENCE IN RISK MANAGEMENT; III: PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

'Acceptable Evidence' enters into how the discussions of science and values in risk management have largely focused on how values enter into arguments about risks, that is, issues of acceptable risk. Instead, this volume concentrates on how values enter into collecting, interpreting, communicating and evaluating the evidence of risks, that is, issues of the acceptability of evidence of risk.