The science of bureaucracy : risk decision making and the US Environmental Protection Agency

The science of bureaucracy risk decision making and the US Environmental Protection Agency

How the US Environmental Protection Agency designed the governance of risk and forged its legitimacy over the course of four decades. The US Environmental Protection Agency was established in 1970 to protect the public health and environment, administering and enforcing a range of statutes and progr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Demortain, David, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : The MIT Press [2020]
Colección:Inside technology.
Materias:
United States. > Environmental Protection Agency > Management > History.
Risk management > Government policy > United States > History.
Environmental policy > United States > Decision making.
Environmental policy > United States > History.
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009654968506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Risk sciences : expertise for decision making and dispute
  • The invention of quantitative risk assessment
  • Prioritizing toxics : the prehistory of risk management
  • Inventing the risk assessment-risk management framework
  • Ruckelshaus and risk : representing the EPA
  • Risk management : the EPA as a decision making system
  • Designing a science for decisions
  • The rise and fall of comparative risk assessment
  • Scientization and the reform of the risk assessment-risk management framework
  • Beyond the risk paradigm.

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