In the chamber of risks [[electronic resource] ] : understanding risk controversies / / William Leiss

• Autore: Leiss William <1939->
• Pubblicazione: Montreal ; ; Ithaca, : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (404 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.17/2/0971
• Soggetto topico: Industrial management - Environmental aspects - Canada; Risk management - Canada; Environmental policy - Canada; Health risk assessment - Canada; Environmental risk assessment - Canada; Risques pour la sant - Évaluation - Canada; Environnement - Évaluation du risque - Canada; Gestion du risque - Canada; Environnement - Protection - Politique gouvernementale - Canada
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-383) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Risk issue management -- Frankenfoods; or, the trouble with science -- Cellular telephones -- MMT, a risk management masquerade -- Regulating nuclear power: the mismanagement of public consultation in Canada / Michael D. Mehta -- Environment's x-file: pulp mill effluent regulation -- Between expertise and bureaucracy: trapped at the interface of science and policy -- The CEPA soap opera -- Voluntary instruments / Eric Darier and Deborah VanNijnatten -- Tobacco uncontrolled -- Into the maze of moral risks -- Towards competence in risk issue management -- Appendix: providing independent expert advice to government and the public.
• Titolo autorizzato: In the chamber of risks
• ISBN: 1-282-85952-8; 9786612859526; 0-7735-6951-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910450643803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II