In the chamber of risks : understanding risk controversies / William Leiss.
- Leiss, William, 1939-
- Date:
- [2001], ©2001
- Books
About this work
Publication/Creation
Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2001], ©2001.
Physical description
xv, 388 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contributors
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.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Languages
Where to find it
Location Status Medical CollectionHD30.255 2001L44iOpen shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 0773522387
- 0773522468