Environmental risk Author Applegate J. (ed.) Date 2004 Source IUCN (ID: MON-072230) Publisher | Place of publication Ashgate Publishing Ltd. | Hampshire, UK ISBN 0 7546 2335 1 Pages 1216 p. Document type Miscellaneous Language English Field of application International Subject Waste & hazardous substances Keyword Hazardous substances Toxicity/poisoning Risk assessment/management Abstract Contents: Vol. I: Foundations: The problem of toxic risk: (1) A generic view of toxic chemicals and similar risks (2) The rise and uses of risk assessment: Risk, science and democracy (3) Risk assessment in a legal context: The perils of unreasonable risk: Information, regulatory policy and toxic substances control (4) Legislating acceptable cancer risk from exposure to toxic chemicals Issues and controversies: Assumptions and conservatism (5) The myth of meaningful environmental risk assessment (6) Is risk assessment really too conservative?: Revising the revisionists (7) Risk perception: perception of risk (8) Trust, emotion, sex, politics and science: Surveying the risk-assessment battlefield (9) Availability cascades and risk regulation (10) Expansion of risk assessment: Comparative risk assessment: health-health tradeoffs (11) Reclaiming environmental law: A normative critique of comparative risk analysis (12) A beginning and not an end in itself: The role of risk assessment in environmental decision-making Vol. II: Fundamental critiques: Information (13) Toxic chemical control policy: Three unabsorbed facts (14) Limits of science: The science charade on toxic risk regulation (15) Good science, bad regulation and toxic risk assessment Distributive justice (16) The environmental justice implications of quantitative risk assessment Institutional choice (17) Risk, courts and agencies (18) A second opinion on an environmental misdiagnosis: The risky prescriptions of breaking the vicious circle (19) The changing role of science in environmental regulatory decision-making in the European Union Alternative to risk: The precautionary principle (20) The effect of uncertainty on the threshold levels to which the precautionary principle appears to be subject (21) Precaution in a multi-risk world