Hazards, risks, and enterprise: approaches to science, law and social policy.

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Short, James F

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TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1990Description: 19p., 62 refsSubject(s):

Subject: A review of four books: 1/ Aaron Wildavsky: Searching for safety; 2/ Mary Douglas: Risk acceptability according to the social sciences; 3/ Lee Clarke: Acceptable risk? Making decision on a toxic environment; 4/ Sheila Jasanoff: Risk managment and political culture; and 5/ David O'Brien: What process is due? Courts and science-policy disputes.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	Australian Emergency Management Library	BOOK	302.12 SHO (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		005271648

Reprinted from Law and Society, Vol. 24., No. 1., 1990, pp179-198

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A review of four books: 1/ Aaron Wildavsky: Searching for safety; 2/ Mary Douglas: Risk acceptability according to the social sciences; 3/ Lee Clarke: Acceptable risk? Making decision on a toxic environment; 4/ Sheila Jasanoff: Risk managment and political culture; and 5/ David O'Brien: What process is due? Courts and science-policy disputes.

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