Dealing with Risk: Why the Public and the Experts Disagree on Environmental Issues

by Howard Margolis

Book Overview

For decades, policymakers and analysts have been frustrated by the stubborn and often dramatic disagreement between experts and the public on acceptable levels of environmental risk. Most experts, for instance, see no severe problem in dealing with nuclear waste, given the precautions and safety levels now in place. Yet public opinion vehemently rejects this view, repudiating both the experts' analysis and the evidence.

In Dealing with Risk,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226505294
• ISBN13: 9780226505299
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.6"