Finkel / Golding Worst Things First

The Debate over Risk-Based National Environmental Priorities
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-1-135-89026-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten

For any government agency, the distribution of available resources among problems or programs is crucially important. Agencies, however, typically lack a self-conscious process for examining priorities, much less an explicit method for defining what priorities should be. Worst Things First? illustrates the controversy that ensues when previously implicit administrative processes are made explicit and subjected to critical examination. It reveals surprising limitations to quantitative risk assessment as an instrument for precise tuning of policy judgments. The book also demonstrates the strength of political and social forces opposing the exclusive use of risk assessment in setting environmental priorities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Finkel, Adam M.

Golding, Dominic

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Terry Davies
Preface
Adam M. Finkel and Dominic Golding
Part I: Introduction
Conference Background and Overview
1. Should We---and Can We---Reduce the Worst Risks First?
Adam M. Finkel
Keynote Address
2. Rationalism and Redemocratization: Time for a Truce
Alice M. Rivlin
Part II: The EPA Paradigm
Framing the Debate
3. EPA's Vision for Setting National Environmental Priorities
F. Henry Habicht II
4. An Overview of Risk-Based Priority Setting at EPA
Charles W. Kent and Frederick W. Allen
5. Integrating Science, Values, and Democracy through Comparative Risk Assessment
Jonathan Lash
6. A Proposal to Address, Rather than Rank, Environmental Problems
Mary O'Brien
Methodological Concerns
7. Current Priority-Setting Methodology: Too Little Rationality or Too Much?
Dale Hattis and Robert L. Goble
8. Quantitative Risk Ranking: More Promise Than the Critics Suggest
M. Granger Morgan
Procedural Concerns
9. Paradigms, Process, and Politics: Risk and Regulatory Design
Donald T. Hornstein
10. Is Reducing Risk the Real Objective of Risk Management?
Richard B. Belzer
Implementation Concerns
11. State Concerns in Setting Environmental Priorities: Is the Risk-Based Paradigm the Best We Can Do?
Victoria J. Tschinkel
12. The States: The National Laboratory for the Risk-Based Paradigm?
G. Tracy Mehan III
Consolidating the Discussions
13. Working Group Discussions
Adam M. Finkel and Dominic Golding
Part III: Three Alternative Paradigms
The Prevention Paradigm
14. Pollution Prevention: Putting Comparative Risk Assessment in Its Place
Barry Commoner
15. Hammers Don't Cut Wood: Why We Need Pollution Prevention and Comparative Risk Assessment
John D. Graham
The Environmental Justice Paradigm
16. Unequal Environmental Protection: Incorporating Environmental Justice in Decision Making
Robert D. Bullard
17. Risk-Based Priorities and Environmental Justice
Albert L. Nichols
The Industrial Transformation Paradigm
18. An Innovation-Based Strategy for the Environment
Nicholas A. Ashford
19. Promoting Innovation 'The Easy Way'
James D. Wilson
Part IV: Conclusions
20. Summary of Closing Panel Discussion
Adam M. Finkel and Dominic Golding
21. Recurring Themes and Points of Contention
Adam M. Finkel and Dominic Golding
22. Afterthoughts
Adam M. Finkel
Appendix