Handbook for Environmental Risk Decision Making: Values, Perceptions, and Ethics - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0367455978 ISBN 13: 9780367455972

Verlag: Routledge, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

This book brings together disparate groups to share thoughts and biases concerning the role of perceptions and ethics in environmental risk decision making. It examines the place values and value judgments in the process of environmental risk decision making.

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C. Richard Cothern, Ph.D., is presently with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Center for Environmental Statistics Development Staff. He has served as the Executive Secretary of the Science Advisory Board at the U.S. EPA and as their National Expert on Radioactivity and Risk Assessment in the Office of Drinking Water. In addition, he is a Professor of Management and Technology at the University of Maryland's University College and an Associate Professorial Lecturer in the Chemistry Department of the George Washington University. Dr. Cothem has authored over 80 scientific articles including many related to public health, the environment, and risk assessment. He has written and edited 14 books, including such diverse topics as science and society, energy and the environment, trace substances in environmental health, lead bioavailability, environmental arsenic, environmental statistics and forecasting, risk assessment, and radon and radionuclides in drinking water. He received his B.A. from Miami University (Ohio), his M.S. from Yale University, and his Ph.D. from the University of Manitoba.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0367455978
• ISBN 13: 9780367455972
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 426
• Herausgeber: Cothern C. Richard
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