E-book
In the chamber of risks [electronic resource] : understanding risk controversies / William Leiss.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780773569515
- ISBN: 0773569510
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 388 p.) : ill.
- Publisher: Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2001.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Multi-user. Terms of use - Issued as part of the desLibris books collection. Multi-User. CatMonthString:august.17 CatMonthString:jun.14 |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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 / Eric 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. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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