Risk and precaution

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Risk and precaution

Alan Randall

Cambridge University Press, 2011

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-256) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

The precautionary principle has been labeled simplistic and the rational approach to decision-making under risk was modeled on well-specified games of chance. How then are we to manage the risks, uncertainties, and 'unknown unknowns' of the real world? In this book, Alan Randall unravels the key controversies surrounding the precautionary principle and develops a new framework that can be taken seriously in policy and management circles. Respecting the complexity of the real world, he defines a justifiable role for the precautionary principle in a risk management framework that integrates precaution with elements of the standard risk management model. This is explained using examples from medicine, pharmacy, synthetic chemicals, nanotechnology, the environment and natural resources conservation. This carefully reasoned but highly accessible book will appeal to readers from a broad range of disciplines, including environmental policy, risk management and cost-benefit analysis.

目次

  • List of figures
  • List of boxes
  • Acknowledgements
  • Part I. The Precautionary Principle - Why So Much Fuss about Such a Simple Idea?: 1. Precaution as common sense: 'look before you leap'
  • 2. Commonsense precaution or paralysis of fear?
  • Part II. Harm and Chance - Managing Risk: 3. Harm, risk, and threat
  • 4. ORM - risk management as we know it
  • 5. Problems with ordinary risk management
  • Part III. Defining and Justifying a Coherent Precautionary Principle: 6. A defensible precautionary principle must withstand these challenges
  • 7. Toward a PP framework - evidence, threat, and remedy
  • 8. Threat and evidence
  • 9. Remedy
  • 10. Precaution for utilitarians?
  • 11. A robust and defensible precautionary principle
  • Part IV. Precaution in Action: 12. Precaution: from principle to policy
  • 13. Integrated risk management
  • Part V. Conclusion: 14. A role for precaution in an integrated risk management framework
  • References
  • Index.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB05660948
  • ISBN
    • 9780521766159
    • 9780521759199
  • LCCN
    2010042532
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    Cambridge
  • ページ数/冊数
    xvi, 260 p.
  • 大きさ
    25 cm
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