Risk sciences : expertise for decision making and dispute -- The invention of quantitative risk assessment -- Prioritizing toxics : the prehistory of risk management -- Inventing the risk assessment-risk management framework -- Ruckelshaus and risk : representing the EPA -- Risk management : the EPA as a decision making system -- Designing a science for decisions -- The rise and fall of comparative risk assessment -- Scientization and the reform of the risk assessment-risk management framework -- Beyond the risk paradigm.
Summary:
"The past three decades have witnessed the emergence of formal frameworks for the assessment, management and more broadly the governance of risk, normalizing the use of science for regulatory decision-making. More than any other agency, the Environmental Protection Agency has been the site of invention as well as the object of these models. The book is about the formalization of techniques of risk governance at and by the EPA, and aims to explain what makes the EPA a risk bureaucracy. Ten chapters are devoted to the history of the formalization of these techniques: the controversies to which they responded, the professional networks in which they were conceived, the way in which they were used and how they legitimized the EPA, their replacement by other techniques over time as they grew more controversial, in turn. The book thus addresses the history of quantitative risk assessment; risk ranking; the so called 'risk assessment-risk management framework'; cost-benefit analysis; comparative risk assessment; risk characterization; problem formulation. It covers four decades of existence of the agency, from its creation in 1970 to 2010"-- Provided by publisher.
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