Risk and precaution
"The precautionary principle has been labeled simplistic and the rational approach to decision-making under risk was modeled on well-specified games of chance. How then are we to manage the risks, uncertainties, and 'unknown unknowns' of the real world? In this book, Alan Randall unra...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2011.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b3975196x*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Precaution as common sense: Look before you leap
- 2. Commonsense precaution or paralysis of fear?
- 3. Harm, risk, and threat
- 4. Ordinary risk management: risk management as we know it
- 5. Problems with ordinary risk management
- 6. A defensible precautionary principle must withstand these challenges
- 7. Toward a precautionary principle framework: evidence, threat, and remedy
- 8. Threat and evidence
- 9. Remedy
- 10. Precaution for utilitarians?
- 11. A robust and defensible precautionary principle
- 12. Precaution: from principle to policy
- 13. Integrated risk management
- 14. A role for precaution in an integrated risk management framework References.
