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Understanding Risk: Informing Decisions in a Democratic Society
Understanding Risk Informing Decisions in a Democratic Society
Author: Committee on Risk Characterization, National Research Council
"Understanding Risk" addresses a central dilemma of risk decision making in a democracy: detailed scientific and technical information is essential for making decisions, but the people who make and live with those decisions are not scientists. The key task of risk characterization is to provide needed and appropriate information to decision make...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780309089562
ISBN-10: 0309089565
Publication Date: 7/15/2003
Pages: 264
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Publisher: National Academies Press
Book Type: Paperback
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