Environmental Risk: v.1 & 2

Volume I. Foundations - the problem of toxic risk: a generic view of toxic chemicals and similar risks, Talbot Page (1978). The rise and uses of risk assessment: risk, science, and democracy, William D. Ruckelshaus (1985). Risk assessment in a legal context: the perils of unreasonable risk - information, regulatory policy, and toxic substances control, John S. Applegate (1991); legislating acceptable cancer risk from exposure to toxic chemicals, Alon Rosenthal, George M. Gray, John D. Graham (1992). Issues and controversies - assumptions and conservatism: the myth of meaningful environmental risk assessment, Mark Eliot Shere (1995); is risk assessment really too conservative? - revising the revisionists, Adam M. Finkel (1989). Risk perception: perception of risk, Paul Slovic (1987); trust, emotion, sex, politics and science - surveying the risk-assessment battlefield, Paul Slovic (1997); availability cascades and risk regulation, Timur Kuran & Cass R. Sunstein (1999). Expansion of risk assessment - comparative risk assessment: health-health tradeoffs, Cass R. Sunstein (1996); reclaiming environmental law - a normative critique of comparative risk analysis, Donald T. Hornstein (1992); a beginning and not an end in itself - the role of risk assessment in environmental decision-making, John S. Applegate (1995). Volume II. Fundamental critiques - information: toxic chemical control policy - three unabsorbed facts, David Roe (2002). Limits of science: the science charade in toxic risk regulation, Wendy E. Wagner (1995); good science, bad regulation, and toxic risk assessment, Howard Latin (1988). Distributive justice: the environmental justice implications of quantitative risk assessment, Robert R. Kuehn (1996). Institutional choice: risk, courts, and agencies, Clayton P. Gillette & James E. Krier (1990); a second opinion on an environmental misdiagnosis - the risky prescriptions of breaking the vicious circle, Adam M. Finkel (1995); the changing role of science in environmental regulatory decision-making in the European Union, Veerle Heyvaert (1999). Alternatives to risk - the precautionary principle: the effect of uncertainty on the threshold levels to which the precautionary principle appears to be subject, Nichoas de Sadeleer (2002); the politics of risk regulation in Europe and the United States, David Vogel (2003); precaution in a multi-risk world, Jonathan B. Wiener (2002).