The Risk Professionals

by Robert W. Rycroft and Thomas Dietz

In the two decades since a new social movement put environmental issues high on the national policy agenda, Washington has become home to a small group of people--the risk professionals--whose careers center on the identification, assessment, and management of risks to public health and safety. These men and women, experts working in federal agencies, Congress, activist organizations, and corporations, help transform mass concern into government policy,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871542145
• ISBN13: 9780871542144
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation
• Length: 161 Pages