Risk vs. Risk: Tradeoffs in Protecting Health and the Environment

Book Overview

Stories appear in the newspaper nearly every day: a drug hailed as a breakthrough treatment turns out to cause harmful side effects; controls implemented to reduce air pollution are shown to generate hazardous solid waste; bans on dangerous chemicals result in the introduction of even more risky substitutes. Could our efforts to protect our health and the environment actually be making things worse? This suspicion has long troubled both advocates and critics of risk-reduction efforts, but the problem has never received focused scrutiny. In Risk Versus Risk, John D. Graham, Jonathan Baert Wiener and their colleagues at the Harvard Centre for Risk Analysis marshal a set of case studies which demonstrate that all too often our nation's campaign to reduce risks to our health and the environment is at war with itself, steadily creating new risks.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674773047
• ISBN13: 9780674773042
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.0" x 6.5"