ISBN:
0520057236
,
0520057546
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Technology Risk assessment
;
Environmental protection
;
Technikbewertung
;
Umweltschutz
Abstract:
This volume attacks an intriguing puzzle: Why, despite close calls, have risky civilian technologies produced no catastrophes in the United States? Such technologies as toxic chemicals and nuclear power pervade contemporary life, and dire and sometimes compelling warnings of their hazards are as familiar as the silhouette of the Three Mile Island cooling towers. Yet so far, we have been free of major disaster. Have we simply been lucky or is our good fortune at least partly the result of deliberate efforts to protect against these hazards? We first came to this question in the course of our graduate studies, while writing dissertations on the regulation of risky technologies. We found an enormous literature on the subject, but little that would help us reach a systematic judgment.
Note:
A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program
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