{"product_id":"understanding-risk-national-research-council-9780309089562","title":"Understanding Risk: Informing Decisions in a Democratic Society","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Risk\u003c\/i\u003e addresses a central dilemma of risk decisionmaking in a democracy: detailed scientific and technical information is essential for making decisions, but the people who make and live with those decisions are not scientists. The key task of risk characterization is to provide needed and appropriate information to decisionmakers and the public. This important new volume illustrates that making risks understandable to the public involves much more than translating scientific knowledge. The volume also draws conclusions about what society should expect from risk characterization and offers clear guidelines and principles for informing the wide variety of risk decisions that face our increasingly technological society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eFrames fundamental questions about what risk characterization means.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eReviews traditional definitions and explores new conceptual and practical approaches.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores how risk characterization should inform decisionmakers and the public.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eLooks at risk characterization in the context of the entire decisionmaking process.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Risk\u003c\/i\u003e discusses how risk characterization has fallen short in many recent controversial decisions. Throughout the text, examples and case studies?such as planning for the long-term ecological health of the Everglades or deciding on the operation of a waste incinerator?bring key concepts to life. \u003ci\u003eUnderstanding Risk\u003c\/i\u003e will be important to anyone involved in risk issues: federal, state, and local policymakers and regulators; risk managers; scientists; industrialists; researchers; and concerned individuals.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Scienc, Board on Environmental Change and Societ\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0309089565\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780309089562\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e National Academies Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d","brand":"National Research Council","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44076011880703,"sku":"9780309089562","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f657883e-1e19-4fa8-9b29-cd09421d3856.jpg?v=1685462679","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/understanding-risk-national-research-council-9780309089562","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}