دانلود کتاب Environmental Impact Assessment, Technology Assessment, and Risk Analysis: Contributions from the Psychological and Decision Sciences

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Front Matter....Pages I-X
Social and Behavioral Research on Risk: Uses in Risk Management Decisionmaking....Pages 1-14
Risk Theory and the Environmental Assessment Process....Pages 15-47
Assessing Long-Range Cumulative Impacts....Pages 49-80
The Impact of EIA on Decisionmaking....Pages 81-90
Opportunities for the Social Sciences in Risk Analysis—An Engineer’s Viewpoint....Pages 91-103
Front Matter....Pages 105-105
The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice....Pages 107-129
Rating the Risks: The Structure Of Expert And Lay Perceptions....Pages 131-156
Large-Scale Risk As a Problem Of Technological, Psychological and Political Judgment....Pages 157-210
Psychological Perspectives on Technology as Societal Option, Source of Hazard and Generator of Environmental Impacts....Pages 211-236
Prediction, Diagnosis, and Causal Thinking in Forecasting....Pages 237-258
Risk Judgment and the Communication of Hazard Information: Toward a New Look in the Study of Risk Perception....Pages 259-312
“Who’s Afraid of Technological Risk?”: An Attempt to Model Reasonable Emotions....Pages 313-323
Psychological Aspects of Scenarios....Pages 325-346
The Empirical Investigation of Citizens’ Preferences with Respect to Four Energy Scenarios....Pages 349-402
Attitude Studies by the IAEA/IIASA Risk Assessment Group....Pages 403-452
Structure of Public Opinion, Nuclear Debate and Risk Assessment: A French Survey....Pages 453-483
Improving Scientists’ Judgments of Risk....Pages 485-514
Front Matter....Pages 515-515
Issues in Evaluating Risks of Fatalities....Pages 517-534
Natural and Technical Hazards: Similarities and Differences....Pages 535-565
Illusions and Mirages in Public Policy....Pages 567-581
Front Matter....Pages 515-515
The Multiple Perspective Concept: Bridging the Gap Between Analysts and Decisionmakers....Pages 583-620
The Delphi Technique....Pages 621-649
Expert Judgment for Human Reliability in Risk Analysis....Pages 651-669
Scientific and Technological Uncertainty in Quantitative Assessment and Policy Analysis....Pages 671-688
An Approach for Assessing Health Risks Associated with Alternative Ambient Air Quality Standards....Pages 691-722
A Decision-Analytic Technology Assessment of Public-Key Cryptography....Pages 723-765
An Asbestos Hazard Index for Managing Friable Asbestos Insulating Material....Pages 767-788
The Social Compatibility of Energy Technologies — Theoretical and Empirical Approaches in West Germany....Pages 789-807
Front Matter....Pages 809-809
Limits of Rationality....Pages 811-829
Three Types of Risk Assessment: A Methodological Analysis....Pages 831-848
From Public Perception of Risk to Cultural Theory of Technology....Pages 849-873
Front Matter....Pages 875-875
Public Disputes About Risky Technologies: Stakeholders and Arenas....Pages 877-915
Heuristic Opinion and Preference Evaluation Research for Assessing Technological Options—A User’s View....Pages 917-952
Canvey Island: The Dynamics of a Major Technological Risk Assessment....Pages 953-972
Political Decisionmaking and Scientific Indeterminacy....Pages 973-1004
Standard-Setting Standards: A Systematic Approach to Managing Public Health and Safety Risks....Pages 1005-1040
Law, Risk Management, and the Influence of the Psychological and Decision Sciences....Pages 1041-1066
Back Matter....Pages 1067-1069