Description: Science of Bureaucracy : Risk Decision-Making and the US Environmental Protection Agency, Paperback by Demortain, David, ISBN 026253794X, ISBN-13 9780262537940, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "The past three decades have witnessed the emergence of formal frameworks for the assessment, management and more broadly the governance of risk, normalizing the use of science for regulatory decision-making. More than any other agency, the EnvironmentalProtection Agency has been the site of invention as well as the object of these models. Th is about the formalization of techniques of risk governance at and by the EPA, and aims to explain what makes the EPA a risk bureaucracy. Ten chapters are devoted to the history of the formalization of these techniques: the controversies to which they responded, the professional networks in which they were conceived, the way in which they were used and how they legitimized the EPA, their replacement by other techniques over time as they grew more controversial, in turn. Th thus addresses the history of quantitative risk assessment; risk ranking; the so called 'risk assessment-risk management framework'; cost-benefit analysis; comparative risk assessment; risk characterization; problem formulation. It covers four decades of existence of the agency, from its creation in 1970 to 2010"--
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Book Title: Science of Bureaucracy : Risk Decision-Making and the US Environmental Protection Agency
Item Length: 9in
Item Height: 1.2in
Item Width: 6in
Author: David Demortain
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Environmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Environmental, Decision-Making & Problem Solving, Public Policy / Science & Technology Policy, Public Policy / Environmental Policy
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication Year: 2020
Genre: Law, Science, Business & Economics, Political Science
Item Weight: 26 Oz
Number of Pages: 452 Pages
