The science of bureaucracy : risk decision-making and the US Environmental Protection Agency / David Demortain.
"The past three decades have witnessed the emergence of formal frameworks for the assessment, management and more broadly the governance of risk, normalizing the use of science for regulatory decision-making. More than any other agency, the Environmental Protection Agency has been the site of i...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The MIT Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Inside technology.
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| Online Access: | Access via Directory of Open Access Books |
| Summary: | "The past three decades have witnessed the emergence of formal frameworks for the assessment, management and more broadly the governance of risk, normalizing the use of science for regulatory decision-making. More than any other agency, the Environmental Protection Agency has been the site of invention as well as the object of these models. The book is about the formalization of techniques of risk governance at and by the EPA, and aims to explain what makes the EPA a risk bureaucracy. Ten chapters are devoted to the history of the formalization of these techniques: the controversies to which they responded, the professional networks in which they were conceived, the way in which they were used and how they legitimized the EPA, their replacement by other techniques over time as they grew more controversial, in turn. The book thus addresses the history of quantitative risk assessment; risk ranking; the so called 'risk assessment-risk management framework'; cost-benefit analysis; comparative risk assessment; risk characterization; problem formulation. It covers four decades of existence of the agency, from its creation in 1970 to 2010"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 436 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780262356671 0262356678 9780262537940 026253794X |