Risk Regulation at Risk: Restoring a Pragmatic Approach

by Sidney A. Shapiro, Robert L. Glicksman, Robert Glicksman

Book Overview

In the 1960s and 1970s, Congress enacted a vast body of legislation to protect the environment and individual health and safety. Collectively, this legislation is known as "risk regulation" because it addresses the risk of harm that technology creates for individuals and the environment. In the last two decades, this legislation has come under increasing attack by critics who employ utilitarian philosophy and cost-benefit analysis. The defenders...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804745935
• ISBN13: 9780804745932
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Stanford Law and Politics
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 11.4"