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Author:

Leiss, William, 1939-

Title:

In the chamber of risks : understanding risk controversies / William Leiss.

Publisher:

McGill-Queen's University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2001

Description:

xv, 388 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Health risk assessment--Canada.--Case studies.
Environmental risk assessment--Canada--Case studies.
Risk management--Canada.--Case studies.
Environmental protection--Government policy--Canada.
Risk Assessment--organization & administration--Canada.
Risk Management--organization & administration--Canada.
Conservation of natural resources--Canada.
Risques pour la santé--Évaluation--Canada--Cas, Études de.
Environnement--Évaluation du risque--Canada--Cas, Études de.
Gestion du risque--Canada--Cas, Études de.
Environnement--Politique gouvernementale--Politique gouvernementale--Canada.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Risk issue management -- Frankenfoods; or, the trouble with science -- Cellular telephones -- MMT, a risk management masquerade -- Regulating nuclear power: the mismanagement of public consultation in Canada / Michael D. Mehta -- Environment's x-file: pulp mill effluent regulation -- Between expertise and bureaucracy: trapped at the interface of science and policy -- The CEPA soap opera -- Voluntary instruments / Éric Darier and Deborah VanNijnatten -- Tobacco uncontrolled -- Into the maze of moral risks -- Towards competence in risk issue management -- Appendix: providing independent expert advice to government and the public.

ISBN:

9780773522466 (pbk.) :
0773522468 (pbk.) :
9780773522381 (bound) :
0773522387 (bound) :

OCLC:

(OCoLC)46660856

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

N5UX522 -- University of Iowa Law Library (Iowa City)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)