The reality of precaution : comparing risk regulation in the United States and Europe / edited by Jonathan B. Wiener [and others].
2011
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Title
The reality of precaution : comparing risk regulation in the United States and Europe / edited by Jonathan B. Wiener [and others].
Published
London ; New York : RFF Press, 2011.
Call Number
K3585 .R43 2011
ISBN
9781933115863 (hbk. : alk. paper)
1933115866 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781933115856 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1933115858 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1933115866 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781933115856 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1933115858 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
xviii, 582 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)610018882
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface / Jonathan B. Wiener
xi
Contributors
xiii
pt. I
Introduction
1.
The Rhetoric of Precaution / Jonathan B. Wiener
3
pt. II
Case Studies of Relative Precaution Regarding Specific Risks
2.
Genetically Modified Foods and Crops / Maurice Lex
39
3.
Beef, Hormones, and Mad Cows / Jonathan B. Wiener
65
4.
Tobacco / D. Douglas Blanke
91
5.
Nuclear Power / Adolf Birkhofer
121
6.
Automobile Emissions / Michael P. Walsh
142
7.
Stratospheric Ozone Depletion and Global Climate Change / James K. Hammitt
159
8.
The Marine Environment / David Freestone
177
9.
Biodiversity Conservation / Kathryn A. Saterson
201
10.
Chemicals / E. Donald Elliott
223
11.
Medical Errors, New Drug Approval, and Patient Safety / Frances H. Miller
257
12.
Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction / Jonathan B. Wiener
285
pt. III
Precaution in Risk Information Systems
13.
Information Disclosure / Peter H. Sand
323
14.
Frameworks for Risk Assessment, Uncertainty, and Precaution / Michael D. Rogers
361
pt. IV
A Broader Empirical Test of Relative Precaution
15.
A Quantitative Comparison of Relative Precaution in the United States and Europe, 1970-2004 / Jonathan B. Wiener
377
pt. V
Can We Explain the Observed Pattern of Precaution?
16.
Political Institutions and the Principle of Precaution / Giandomenico Majone
411
17.
Legal and Administrative Systems: Implications for Precautionary Regulation / Turner T. Smith, Jr.
434
18.
Risk Perceptions and Risk Attitudes in the United States and Europe / Jessica S. Ancker
480
19.
Precautions against What? Perceptions, Heuristics, and Culture / Cass R. Sunstein
492
pt. VI
Conclusions
20.
The Real Pattern of Precaution / Jonathan B. Wiener
519
Acknowledgments
567
Index
571