1st Edition
Comparing Environmental Risks Tools for Setting Government Priorities
By J. Clarence Davies
Copyright 1996
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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The budgetary squeeze of the 1990s has made it obvious that the government cannot address every possible environmental problem. Comparative risk assessment (CRA) is increasingly advanced as the means for setting realistic priorities. RFF's Center for Risk Management commissioned background papers from leading experts on CRA for a meeting with federal regulatory officials. Comparing Environmental... Read more
Foreword
Paul R. Portney
Preface
J. Clarence Davies
1. Comparative Risk Analysis in the 1990s: The State of the Art
J. Clarence Davies
2. Ranking Risks: Some Key Choices
J. Clarence Davies
3. CRA and the States: History, Politics, and Results
Richard A. Minard, Jr.
4. CRA and Its Stakeholders: Advice to the Executive Office
Frederick R. Anderson
5. Refining the CRA Framework
John D. Graham and James K. Hammitt
6. A Proposal for Ranking Risk within Federal Agencies
M. Granger Morgan, Baruch Fischoff, Lester Lave, and Paul Fischbeck
Index
Biography
J. Clarence Davies is a senior fellow in the Center for Risk Management at Resource for the Future.
