Risk and Precaution

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-521-76615-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 667 g

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 unravels the key controversies surrounding the precautionary principle and develops a new framework that can be taken seriously in policy and management circles. Respecting the complexity of the real world, he defines a justifiable role for the precautionary principle in a risk management framework that integrates precaution with elements of the standard risk management model. This is explained using examples from medicine, pharmacy, synthetic chemicals, nanotechnology, the environment and natural resources conservation. This carefully reasoned but highly accessible book will appeal to readers from a broad range of disciplines, including environmental policy, risk management and cost-benefit analysis.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Randall, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Risikomanagement
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umwelttechnik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures
List of boxes
Acknowledgements
Part I. The Precautionary Principle – Why So Much Fuss about Such a Simple Idea?: 1. Precaution as common sense: 'look before you leap'
2. Commonsense precaution or paralysis of fear?
Part II. Harm and Chance – Managing Risk: 3. Harm, risk, and threat
4. ORM – risk management as we know it
5. Problems with ordinary risk management
Part III. Defining and Justifying a Coherent Precautionary Principle: 6. A defensible precautionary principle must withstand these challenges
7. Toward a PP framework – evidence, threat, and remedy
8. Threat and evidence
9. Remedy
10. Precaution for utilitarians?
11. A robust and defensible precautionary principle
Part IV. Precaution in Action: 12. Precaution: from principle to policy
13. Integrated risk management
Part V. Conclusion: 14. A role for precaution in an integrated risk management framework
References
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Randall, Alan
Alan Randall is Professor and Chair of the Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics at Ohio State University. He specializes in environmental economics and policy, with particular interests in the theory and practice of estimating the benefits and costs of environmental projects and programs. He is the author of Making the Environment Count (1999) and, with John C. Bergstrom, Resource Economics (Third edition, 2010).