Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Comparing Risks and Setting Environmental Priorities
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental policy
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Comparing Environmental Risks
Author: J. Clarence DaviesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135890544
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The budgetary squeeze of the 1990s has made it obvious that the government cannot address every possible environmental problem. Comparative risk assessment (CRA) is increasingly advanced as the means for setting realistic priorities. RFF's Center for Risk Management commissioned background papers from leading experts on CRA for a meeting with federal regulatory officials. Comparing Environmental Risks presents the revised papers of this workshop. Representing the state of the art on programmatic CRA, its methodological analyses and practical recommendations will be invaluable to government officials, independent analysts, and anyone studying environmental policy.
Worst Things First
Author: Adam M. FinkelPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135890331
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
For any government agency, the distribution of available resources among problems or programs is crucially important. Agencies, however, typically lack a self-conscious process for examining priorities, much less an explicit method for defining what priorities should be. Worst Things First? illustrates the controversy that ensues when previously implicit administrative processes are made explicit and subjected to critical examination. It reveals surprising limitations to quantitative risk assessment as an instrument for precise tuning of policy judgments. The book also demonstrates the strength of political and social forces opposing the exclusive use of risk assessment in setting environmental priorities.
Comparative Risk Assessment and Environmental Decision Making
Author: Igor LinkovPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1402022433
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 431
Book Description
Decision making in environmental projects is typically a complex and confusing process characterized by trade-offs between socio-political, environmental, and economic impacts. Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) is a methodology applied to facilitate decision making when various activities compete for limited resources. CRA has become an increasingly accepted research tool and has helped to characterize environmental profiles and priorities on the regional and national level. CRA may be considered as part of the more general but as yet quite academic field of multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA). Considerable research in the area of MCDA has made available methods for applying scientific decision theoretical approaches to multi-criteria problems, but its applications, especially in environmental areas, are still limited. The papers show that the use of comparative risk assessment can provide the scientific basis for environmentally sound and cost-efficient policies, strategies, and solutions to our environmental challenges.
Use of Risk Analysis and Cost-benefit Analysis in Setting Environmental Priorities
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural ResourcesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Comparing Environmental Risks
Author: J. Clarence DaviesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135890617
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
The budgetary squeeze of the 1990s has made it obvious that the government cannot address every possible environmental problem. Comparative risk assessment (CRA) is increasingly advanced as the means for setting realistic priorities. RFF's Center for Risk Management commissioned background papers from leading experts on CRA for a meeting with federal regulatory officials. Comparing Environmental Risks presents the revised papers of this workshop. Representing the state of the art on programmatic CRA, its methodological analyses and practical recommendations will be invaluable to government officials, independent analysts, and anyone studying environmental policy.
Comparative Risk Assessment and Environmental Decision Making
Author: Igor LinkovPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9781402018961
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, held in Rome (Anzio), Italy, October 13-16, 2002
Environmental Priority-Setting in U. S. States and Communities
Author: David Lewis FeldmanPublisher:
ISBN: 9780788142307
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 181
Book Description
How do states and local governments decide which environmental problems are most important to them? Are decisions about which environmental problems to address, and how to address them, based on the probable cost of remedies, Federal mandates, public clamor, science, or some combination of these and other factors? This report explores efforts by states and local governments to establish environmental priorities through comparative risk projects. This research is to better understand how priority setting efforts: (1) identify, characterize, rank and prioritized risks: (2) are used to reduce risks or provide amenities: (3) are evaluated; and (4) can be improved to better manage problems.
Regulatory Reform and Environmental Laws
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Comparative Risk Assessment
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description