Bargaining With Uncertainty: Decision-Making in Public Health, Technologial Safety, and Environmental Quality Pdf Reviews

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Release: 1992-01-27
Publisher: Praeger
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0865690464
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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In this intriguing volume, Merrie G. Klapp explains how regulatory decisions in such crucial areas as public health, technological safety, and environmental quality are molded and recast. She finds that scientific uncertainty is a key factor, with agencies, interest groups, Congress, and the courts attempting to shift responsibility of proof or varying the standard of proof according to the pressures brought to bear on the issue. In general, Professor Klapp finds that when citizens or industrialists organize to protest a regulatory decision and when the legislature or the courts take scientific uncertainty into account, then the initial regulatory decision is changed.By contrast with the United States, where scientific uncertainty is used as a public resource and rationale for change, in France and Britain scientific uncertainty is treated as a private resource. French and British scientists do not treat regulatory decisions as opportunities to reveal scientific uncertainty to the publ Download Bargaining With Uncertainty for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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