In the chamber of risks [electronic resource] : understanding risk controversies / William Leiss.
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TextPublication details: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2001.Description: xv, 388 p. : illSubject(s): - Industrial management -- Environmental aspects -- Canada -- Case studies
- Risk management -- Canada -- Case studies
- Environmental policy -- Canada -- Case studies
- Health risk assessment -- Canada -- Case studies
- Environmental risk assessment -- Canada -- Case studies
- Risques pour la santé -- Évaluation -- Canada -- Cas, Études de
- Environnement -- Évaluation du risque -- Canada -- Cas, Études de
- Gestion du risque -- Canada -- Cas, Études de
- Environnement -- Protection -- Politique gouvernementale -- Canada
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- HD30.255 .L444 2001eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-383) and index.
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.
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