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Risk Assessment in Setting National Priorities

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  • © 1989

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Editors:
  1. James J. Bonin

    1. Shell Oil Company, Houston, USA

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  2. Donald E. Stevenson

    1. Shell Oil Company, Houston, USA

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Part of the book series: Advances in Risk Analysis (AIRA, volume 7)

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Table of contents (73 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Science and Sociology: The Transition to a Post-Conservative Risk Assessment Era

    • Terry F. Yosie
    Pages 1-11

  3. The Use of Focus Groups in Risk Communication

    • William H. Desvousges, V. Kerry Smith
    Pages 13-24

  4. Development of Cleanup Criteria for the Port Hope Remedial Program

    • D. B. Chambers, L. M. Lowe, G. G. Case, R. W. Pollock
    Pages 25-41

  5. Combining Physiology, Carcinogenic Mechanism, and Interindividual Variation in Cancer Dose-Response Extrapolations

    • Robert L. Sielken Jr.
    Pages 43-58

  6. On Basing Extrapolation of Risk for a Chemical Carcinogen on Total Dose (Constant Dose Rate × Continuous Exposure Duration): Implications and an Extension

    • Kenneth G. Brown, Robert P. Beliles
    Pages 59-66

  7. The Approach to Risk Analysis in Three Industries: Nuclear Power, Space Systems, and Chemical Process

    • B. John Garrick
    Pages 67-74

  8. An Epidemiologic Approach to Dealing With Multimedia Exposure to Multiple Related Chemicals

    • Stan C. Freni
    Pages 75-81

  9. Incorporating Risk Into the Development of Soil Cleanup Guidelines for Trace Organic Compounds

    • B. G. Ibbotson, D. M. Gorber, D. W. Reades
    Pages 83-95

  10. Quantifying and Comparing the Benefits of Risk Reduction Programs to Prioritize Expenditures

    • Ronald J. Marnicio, Research Methodologies Study Group
    Pages 97-109

  11. Assessment of Risk from Short-Term Exposures

    • James J. Chen, Ralph L. Kodell, David W. Gaylor
    Pages 111-118

  12. Societal Risk from a Thermodynamic Perspective

    • Elmer L. Offenbacher, Paul Slovic
    Pages 119-134

  13. Risk in Defense Policy Decisions

    • M. Elisabeth Paté-Cornell
    Pages 135-149

  14. The Strategic Defense Initiative and Nuclear Proliferation from a Risk Analysis Perspective

    • Chauncey Starr, Chris Whipple
    Pages 151-158

  15. The Hazardous Air Pollutant Prioritization System

    • Ila L. Cote, Alice S. Pelland, Stanton P. Coerr
    Pages 159-164

  16. Air Emission Risk Assessment Sensitivity Analysis for a Coal-Fired Power Plant

    • Gregory S. Kowalczyk, Lawrence B. Gratt, Bruce W. Perry, Evyonne Yazdzik
    Pages 165-174

  17. A Systematic Approach for Environmental Risk Assessment

    • Sheldon S. Lande
    Pages 175-181

  18. The Use of Risk Index Systems to Evaluate Risk

    • Gary R. Rosenblum, Steven A. Lapp
    Pages 183-193

  19. Probabilistic Seismic Risk to Non-Nuclear Facilities

    • B. G. Cassidy, W. S. LaPay, D. F. Paddelford
    Pages 195-203

  20. Catastrophic Damage from Dam-Break Floods

    • L. Douglas James, Melanie L. Bengtson
    Pages 205-212
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The growing perception of the public and politicians that life is extremely risky has led to a dramatic and increasing interest in risk analysis. The risks may be very diverse­ as demonstrated by the range of subjects covered at the annual meetings of the Society for Risk Analysis. There is a need to pause and see how well the present approaches are serving the nation. The theme, "Setting National Priorities," which was chosen for the 1987 SRA Annual Meeting, reflects the concern that in dealing with individual kinds of risks, society may be more concerned with the trees than the forest. It is surprising how little attention is being given to the holistic aspects of risk. Who, for instance, is responsible for a national strategy to manage the reduction of health or other risks? Individual agencies have the responsibility for specific patterns of exposure, but these are not integrated and balanced to determine how the nation as a whole can obtain the greatest benefit for the very large investment which is made in risk-related research and analysis.

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  • Shell Oil Company, Houston, USA

    James J. Bonin, Donald E. Stevenson

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