Understanding Risk: Informing Decisions in a Democratic Society
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By National Research Council, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, Board on Environmental Change and Society, Committee on Risk Characterization, Harvey V. Fineberg (Editor), Paul C. Stern (Editor)
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Understanding Risk 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 k...







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