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050 00 $aKF3775$b.S53 2003
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100 1 $aShapiro, Sidney A.,$d1947-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85054127
245 10 $aRisk regulation at risk :$brestoring a pragmatic approach /$cSidney A. Shapiro and Robert L. Glicksman.
260 $aStanford, Calif. :$bStanford University Press,$c[2003], ©2003.
300 $axii, 271 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [215]-265) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tPragmatism and Risk Regulation -- $g2.$tPrinciples of Pragmatic Risk Regulation -- $g3.$tThe Structure of Risk Regulation -- $g4.$tThe Rationale for Risk Regulation -- $g5.$tThe Critique of Risk Regulation -- $g6.$tValuation Methods -- $g7.$tRegulatory Impact Analysis Requirements -- $g8.$tPragmatic Methods of Regulation -- $g9.$tPromoting Accountable Risk Regulation.
520 1 $a"In the 1960s and 1970s, Congress enacted a vast body of legislation to protect the environment and individual health and safety. Collectively, this legislation is known as "risk regulation" because it addresses the risk of harm that technology creates for individuals and the environment. In the last two decades, this legislation has come under increasing attack by critics who employ utilitarian philosophy and cost-benefit analysis.
520 8 $aThe defenders of this body of risk regulation, by contrast, have lacked a similar unifying theory.".
520 8 $a"In this book, the authors propose that the American tradition of philosophical pragmatism fills this vacuum. They argue that pragmatism offers a better method for conceiving of and implementing risk regulation than the economic paradigm favored by its critics. While pragmatism offers a methodology in support of risk regulation as it was originally conceived, it also offers a perspective from which this legislation can be held up to critical appraisal.
520 8 $aThe authors employ pragmatism to support risk regulation, but pragmatism also leads them to agree with some of the criticisms against it and even to level new criticisms of their own." "In the end, the authors reject the picture, painted by risk regulations' critics, of widely excessive and irrational regulation, but they do not entirely exonerate risk regulation either. The pragmatic perspective leads them to propose a number of ideas about how risk regulation might be usefully reformed."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aEnvironmental law$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009103157
650 0 $aEnvironmental risk assessment$zUnited States.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008118546
650 0 $aTechnology$xRisk assessment$zUnited States.
650 0 $aRisk assessment$zUnited States.
700 1 $aGlicksman, Robert L.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92029394
852 00 $boff,bus$hKF3775$i.S53 2003