Understanding Risk: Informing Decisions in a Democratic Society by Board on Environmental Change and Societ, Division of Behavioral and Social Scienc, National Research Council

Understanding Risk: Informing Decisions in a Democratic Society

Board on Environmental Change and Societ, Division of Behavioral and Social Scienc, National Research Council

264 pages • first pub 1996 (editions)

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Understanding Risk addresses a central dilemma of risk decisionmaking in a democracy: detailed scientific and technical information is essential for making decisions, but the people who make and live with those decisions are not scientists. The ke...

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