Table of Contents
Introduction: Values and Value Judgments in Ecological Health Assessments. Strange Chemistry: Environmental Risk Conflicts in a World of Science, Values, and Blind Spots.
Issues in Environmental Risk Decision Making: An Overview of Environmental Risk Decision Making: Values, Perceptions, and Ethics. Introduction to Issues in Environmental Risk Decision Making. Industry's Use of Risk, Values, Perceptions, and Ethics in Decision Making. Regulating and Managing Risk: Impact of Subjectivity on Objectivity. Back to the Future: Rediscovering the Role of Public Health in Environmental Decision Making. Telling the Public the Facts-or the Probable Facts-About Risks. The Urgent Need to Integrate Ethical Considerations into Risk Assessment Procedures. The Problem of Intergenerational Equity: Balancing Risks, Costs, and Benefits Fairly Across Generations.
Values and Value Judgments: Introduction to Quantitative Issues. Ecological Risk Assessment: Toward a Broader Analytic Framework. Environmental Ethics and Human Values. Moral Values in Risk Decisions. Values and Comparative Risk Assessment. Risk and Rationality in Decision Making: Exposing the Underlying Values Used When Confronted by Analytical Uncertainties. Comparing Apples and Oranges: Combining Data on Value Judgments. The Ethical Basis of Environmental Risk Analysis. Ethical Theory and the Demands of Sustainability. The Cardinal Virtues of Risk Analysis: Science at the Intersection of Ethics, Rationality, and Culture. Value Judgments Involved In Verification and Validation of Risk Assessment Models. The Stewardship Ethic-Resolving the Environmental Dilemma.
Commentary: Introduction to the Commentary Section. Awakenings to Risk in the Federal Research and Development Establishments. The Citizenship Responsibilities of Chemists. Global Bioethics: Origin and Development. Ethics and Values in Environmental Risk Assessment-A Synthesis.
The Contributors. Index.