A Guidebook To Comparing Risks And Setting Environmental Priorities
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Author | : United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2018-07-10 |
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ISBN | : 9781722670870 |
A Guidebook to Comparing Risks and Setting Environmental Priorities
Author | : United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Policy, Planning, and Evaluation |
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Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Environmental policy |
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Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Environmental policy |
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Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Environmental policy |
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Author | : J. Clarence Davies |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2014-04-04 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1135890544 |
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 Risks presents the revised papers of this workshop. Representing the state of the art on programmatic CRA, its methodological analyses and practical recommendations will be invaluable to government officials, independent analysts, and anyone studying environmental policy.
Author | : JC Davies (Ed) |
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Release | : 1996 |
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Author | : Adam M. Finkel |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 2014-04-04 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1135890331 |
For any government agency, the distribution of available resources among problems or programs is crucially important. Agencies, however, typically lack a self-conscious process for examining priorities, much less an explicit method for defining what priorities should be. Worst Things First? illustrates the controversy that ensues when previously implicit administrative processes are made explicit and subjected to critical examination. It reveals surprising limitations to quantitative risk assessment as an instrument for precise tuning of policy judgments. The book also demonstrates the strength of political and social forces opposing the exclusive use of risk assessment in setting environmental priorities.
Author | : United States. Environmental Protection Agency |
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Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Environmental protection |
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Author | : Christopher H. Foreman |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2011-02-01 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780815717379 |
Are we environmentally victimizing, perhaps even poisoning, our minority and low-income citizens? Proponents of "environmental justice" assert that environmental decisionmaking pays insufficient heed to the interests of those citizens, disproportionately burdens their neighborhoods with hazardous toxins, and perpetuates an insidious "environmental racism." In the first book-length critique of environmental justice advocacy, Christopher Foreman argues that it has cleared significant political hurdles but displays substantial limitations and drawbacks. Activism has yielded a presidential executive order, management reforms at the Environmental Protection Agency, and numerous local political victories. Yet the environmental justice movement is structurally and ideologically unable to generate a focused policy agenda. The movement refuses to confront the need for environmental priorities and trade-offs, politically inconvenient facts about environmental health risks, and the limits of an environmental approach to social justice. Ironically, environmental justice advocacy may also threaten the very constituencies it aspires to serve--distracting attention from the many significant health hazards challenging minority and disadvantaged populations. Foreman recommends specific institutional reforms intended to recast the national dialogue about the stakes of these populations in environmental protection.
Author | : M. Granger Morgan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 607 |
Release | : 2017-10-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1316884961 |
Many books instruct readers on how to use the tools of policy analysis. This book is different. Its primary focus is on helping readers to look critically at the strengths, limitations, and the underlying assumptions analysts make when they use standard tools or problem framings. Using examples, many of which involve issues in science and technology, the book exposes readers to some of the critical issues of taste, professional responsibility, ethics, and values that are associated with policy analysis and research. Topics covered include policy problems formulated in terms of utility maximization such as benefit-cost, decision, and multi-attribute analysis, issues in the valuation of intangibles, uncertainty in policy analysis, selected topics in risk analysis and communication, limitations and alternatives to the paradigm of utility maximization, issues in behavioral decision theory, issues related to organizations and multiple agents, and selected topics in policy advice and policy analysis for government.