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This is approximately half of an annotated index, cumulative through volume 10, no. 3 (Summer 1999), of articles that have been published in Risk. A combined file is available, but it is large (91K). Articles through volume 8 are online, but tables, figures and mathematical expressions are not included. Error reports are appreciated!
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A

Baruch Fischhoff, Acceptable Risk: A Conceptual Proposal --- Challenges de minimis risk. Argues that risks ought not be considered apart from benefits and views of those exposed. Also suggests ways to meet the latter goals.... 5.1 (1994).

Richard J. Bord, Ann Fisher & Robert E. O'Connor, Is Accurate Understanding of Global Warming Necessary to Promote Willingness to Sacrifice? --- Suggests potential benefits from having a general public better informed about global climate change.... 8.339 (1997).

Galen E. Cole, Chester L. Pogostin, Bonita J. Westover, Nilka M. Ríos & CeCelia B. Collier, Addressing Problems in Evaluating Health-Relevant Programs through Systematic Planning and Evaluation --- Argues that inconsistent terminology often hinders assessing health program implementation, effectiveness and efficiency -- and proposes a model scheme for conducting such evaluations.... 6.37 (1995).

Clark D. Carrington, An Administrative View of Model Uncertainty in Public Health --- reviews several ways to deal with model uncertainty and evaluates six such methods with regard to, e.g., transparency and cost of execution.... 8.273 (1997).

Branden B. Johnson, Advancing Understanding of Knowledge's Role in Lay Risk Perception --- After examining how knowledge affects lay risk perception, suggests that better understanding can also illuminate experts' hazard knowledge.... 4.189 (1993).

Admassu Tassew, AIDS News as Risk Communication --- Reports a study of AIDS prevention stories in four prestge dailies, two in Europe and two in Africa, over an eight-year period.... 8.79 (1997).

Norman L. Balmer, Alternative Dispute Resolution in Patent Controversies --- Relates how ADR allows attorneys to tailor rules to resolve disputes in light of, e.g., party relationships and internal dynamics. He notes that, for life to go on, having resolution is, itself, an important goal.... 6.145 (1995).

Michael A. Royal, Amalgam Fillings: Do Dental Patients Have a Right to Informed Consent? --- Argues that health risks suggested by (admittedly controversial) studies of amalgam fillings warrant permitting patients to choose alternatives.... 2.141 (1991).

Charles Tomljanovic, Maxine Wright-Walters & Jules Stephensky, Anthropogenic Electromagnetic Fields and Cancer: A Perspective --- reviews a National Research Council report and concludes that, e.g., until a cancer promotion model can be identified for effective testing, the EMF debate will remain open.... 8.287 (1997).

Mary Harris Veeder, Authorial Voice, Implied Audiences and the Drafting of the 1988 AIDS National Mailing --- Based on an analysis of drafts of the 1988 ANM concludes that risk communicators should attend to audience needs rather than competing truth claims.... 4.287 (1993).


Char J. Word, Anna K. Harding, Gordon R. Bilyard & James R. Weber, Basic Science and Risk Communication: A Dialogue Based Study --- Uses ethnographic analysis of a focus group discussion between scientists and laypersons to study information exchange in risk communication.... 10.231 (1999)

B

Timothy P. Linkkila & Timothy E. Tracy, Biotechnology Process Patents: Is Special Legislation Needed? --- Reviews events prompting proposed changes to the patent law and argues that pending bills may cause more problems than they solve.... 5.177 (1994).

Michael Greenberg, Dona Schneider & Jim Parry, Brown Fields, a Regional Incinerator and Resident Perception of Neighborhood Quality --- Discusses an extension of research into residential perceptions of neighborhood quality as affected by urban blight and suggests that unwanted facilities may help deteriorate neighborhoods.... 6.241 (1995).


C

Herbert Inhaber, Can an Economic Approach Solve the High-Level Nuclear Waste Problem? --- Proposes a noncoercive siting strategy called a reverse Dutch auction.... 2.341 (1991).

Jeannette M. Trauth, A Case Study of Health Risk Communication: What the Public Wants and What it Gets --- Analyzes 40 years of coverage of a major source of pollution by a Pittsburgh newspaper and summarizes a survey used, e.g., to learn citzens need for knowledge.... 5.49 (1994).

Richard M. Lynch & Mary S. Henefin, Causation in Occupational Disease: Balancing Epidemiology, Law and Manufacturer Conduct --- Examines evolution of disease causation theory and its impact on public health, as well as how these relate to the courtroom admissibility of expert opinion evidence.... [.pdf.] 9.259 (1998).

Richard Rich, Robert J. Griffin & Sharon M. Friedman, Introduction: The Challenge of Risk Communication in a Democratic Society --- Reviews key issues in a symposium concerning the relationship between risk communication and public participation.... 10.189 (1999)

L. James Valverde A., Jr., The Cognitive Status of Risk: A Response to Thompson --- Discusses the role of probability theory in risk analysis and management; argues against overemphasis on the distinction between risk subjectivism and risk objectivism.... 2.313 (1991).

John D. Graham & David R. Holtgrave, Coke Oven Emissions: A Case Study of Technology-Based Regulation --- Based on coke oven experience, argues that forcing technology beyond demonstrated competence can be expensive and ineffective.... 1.245 (1990).

Sharon Dunwoody, Community Structure and Media Risk Coverage --- Regards media organizations as community creatures, their accounts to be social constructions, and answers to "Who's right?" to be relative.... 5.193 (1994).

Kopl Halperin, A Comparative Analysis of Six Methods for Calculating Travel Fatality Risk --- Examines alternative calculations of travel fatality and finds, e.g, that commonly reported death rates tend to minimize the relative risk of auto travel.... 4.15 (1993).

John Kadvany, From Comparative Risk to Decision Analysis: Ranking Solutions to Multiple-Value Environmental Problems --- Urges more attention to be given to multiattribute utility and decision analysis to help, e.g., illuminate stakeholder values and generate alternative approaches.... 6.333 (1995).

Adam M. Finkel, Comparing Risks Thoughtfully --- Argues that comparing risks is not impossible or immoral but is nonetheless very difficult. Discusses two major pitfalls before sketching a framework for improving comparative risk assessments.... 7.325 (1996).

Linda-Jo Schierow, Comparison of Environmental Risk Provisions in the 103d Congress --- Provisions of several House and Senate bills, including a proposal for improved risk assessment, are compared in tabular format.... 5.283 (1994).

Judy S. LaKind & Daniel Q. Naiman, Comparison of Predicted and Observed Dioxin Levels in Fish: Implications for Risk Assessment --- Compares sampled and modelled dioxin levels in fish near pulp and paper mill discharges and argues that determination of health risks should be based on sampling.... 4.253 (1993).

Bryan Harris, A Comparison of U.S. and E.U. Product Safety Regulations: A Case Study --- compares government approaches with respect to foods that are combined with, e.g., trinkets -- particularly when likely to be consumed by children.... 8.209 (1997).

Paul B. Thompson & Wesley Dean, Competing Conceptions of Risk --- Recent literature is said to reflect growing acknowledgment of multiple conceptions of risk but often to obscure an important distinction. Building on work of Kristin Shrader-Frechette, explores potential for debate over competing philosophical conceptions of risk.... 7.361 (1996).

Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer & Kevin B. Fitzgerald, Conflicting Views on Fair Siting Processes: Evidence from Austria and the U.S. --- Maintains that, by granting legitimacy to different notions of fairness and building on common values such as responsibility, it is possible to design siting procedures that promote social cohesion, trust and a sense of fair play.... 7.119 (1996).

Dalton G. Paxman, Congressional Risk Proposals --- Relates how an ambitious environmental agenda supported by the Administration and many members of the 103d Congress was ultimately derailed-- and associates this with an ever-growing interest in risk assessment.... 6.165 (1995).

Tomke Lask, Contesting Legal Procedures of Risk Management in Belgium: A Case Study --- Evaluates legal procedures for dealing with siting in the context of an actual Belgian conflict, and discusses how citizens' dissatisfaction has resulted in increased involvement.... [.pdf.] 9.329 (1998).

Itzhak Jacoby, Consensus Development at NIH: What Went Wrong? --- Identifies the Science Court as a model for National Institutes of Health consensus development conferences; argues for following that model more closely.... 4.133 (1993).

Peter W. Huber, Coping with Phantom Risks in the Courts --- Describes "Phantom" risks as those tending to hover indefinitely, never to crystallize; argues that legal procedures should optimally lead to closure and eliminate unwarranted fears.... 6.111 (1995).

Eileen N. Abt, Coping with the Risk of Cancer in Children Living Near Power Lines --- Recounts how public fears, whether or not well-founded, create problems and suggests possible solutions.... 5.65 (1994).

Howard Kunreuther & Paul Slovic, Coping with Stigma: Challenges & Oppotunities --- Discusses several strategies for preventing technological stigma from causing unwarranted bias in public decision making.... 10.269 (1999)


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Thomas G. Field, Jr. & Colleen M. Keegan, Comment: Daubert's Significance --- Explains, e.g., how non-lawyers can overestimate the importance of Daubert.... 4.283 (1993).

John M. Mendeloff, Decision Analysis and FDA Drug Review: A Proposal for "Shadow" Advisory Committees --- Given that FDA seems to acknowledge the utility of sometimes different standards for assessing drug efficacy, proposes a methodology that might, e.g., help assess FDA decisions.... 6.203 (1995).

John M. Gleason, The Decision to Reactivate a First-Generation Soviet Nuclear Power Plant: Conceptual and Decision-Analytic Frameworks --- Explores a variety of factors that led to reopening the Armenian Metsamor facility notwithstanding general agreement that this is unwarranted technologically.... 8.39 (1997).

Seth Tuler & Thomas Webler, Designing an Analytic Deliberative Process for Environmental Health Policy Making in the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex ---using a National Research Council Report as a centerpiece, evaluates the effectiveness of a conceptual approach to risk policy-making.... 10.65 (1999).

Phillip K. Russell, Development of Vaccines to Meet Public Health Needs: Incentives and Obstacles --- Explains how such matters as high costs of regulation, lack of an effective plan for delivery (particularly abroad) and politics can interfere with providing globally needed vaccines.... 7.239 (1996).

Linda-Jo Schierow, Dioxin: Reassessing the Risk --- Briefly summarizes the status of a draft Environmental Protection Agency report reassessing the appropriate treatment of dioxin and describes ongoing intra- and extramural reviews of the reassessment.... 7.7 (1996).

Leonard P. Caccamo, Kimbroe J. Carter, Barbara A. Erickson, William R. Johnson & Edward Kessler, Doctors at Risk: A Problem as Viewed by Decision Analysis --- Uses a case analysis to argue that medical peer review fails to encourage cost effective behavior and may decrease the quality of medical care.... 2.357 (1991).

Ralph M. Perhac, Jr., Comment: Does Risk Aversion Make a Case for Conservatism? --- Argues that risk aversion, alone, does not support the preferability of overstating, as opposed to understating, mean risk.... 7.297 (1996).


E

Leslie A. Nieves, Economic Impacts of Noxious Facilities: Incorporating the Effects of Risk Aversion --- Suggests an integrative approach to facilities that elicit public risk aversion and suggests a framework for integrating psychometric and econometric techniques.... 4.35 (1993).

Arthur Kantrowitz, Elitism vs. Checks and Balances in Communicating Scientific Information to the Public --- The father of the Science Court describes his objective in proposing it, his efforts to get a major public test of the concept, and insights gained since 1967.... 4.101 (1993).

Jon F. Merz, An Empirical Analysis of the Medical Informed Consent Doctrine: Search for a Standard of Disclosure --- Evaluates the informed consent doctrine in tort cases and concludes that it is now difficult for physicians to decide what must be disclosed.... 2.27 (1991).

Joseph L. Lakshmanan, An Empirical Argument for Nontechnically Trained Public Members on Technical Advisory Committees: FDA as a Model --- Based on two surveys, compares issue comprehension and attitudes of various types of Food and Drug Administration advisory committee members.... 1.61 (1990).

Janet D. Gough, Environmental Decision Making and Risk Management for Groundwater Systems --- Explores, with an eye to New Zealand, the use of risk management approaches for environmental decision making at strategic, policy, management and operational levels.... 8.155 (1997).

Daniel C. Wigley & Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette, Environmental Racism and Biased Methods of Risk Assessment --- Based on analysis of a risk assessment for a proposed Louisiana uranium enrichment facility, argues that environmental injustice occurs when assessors' scientific methods cause de facto discrimination.... 7.55 (1996).

Linda-Jo Schierow, Environmental Risk Analysis: Proposed Mandates 1993-1998 --- compares Congressional use, or lack thereof, of risk and cost-benefit analysis in environmental legislation promulgated between 1993 and 1998.... 10.177 (1999).

John Martin Gillroy, Environmental Risk and the Traditional Sector Approach: Market Efficiency at the Core of Environmental Law? --- provides an in-depth discussion on the evolution of environmental law and the proposition that market efficiency has been, and still is, at its core.... 10.139 (1999).

Immaculada de Melo-Martin, Ethics and Uncertainty: In Vitro Fertilization and Risks to Women’s Health --- Examines the risks, uncertainties and public policies surrounding in vitro fertilization and women’s health issues.....[.pdf] 9.201 (1998).

Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette, Evaluating the Expertise of Experts --- Maintains that a rigid distinction between risk assessment and risk management is unwise. Concerned about procedural fairness, she argues that the public should have a voice in both.... 6.115 (1995).

Ragnar E. Löfstedt, Evaluation of Siting Strategies: The Case of Two UK Waste Tire Incinerators --- Examines the circumstances that may have contributed to differing outcomes with respect to siting similar facilities in the UK.... 8.63 (1997).

Jeffrey K. Lazo, Jason Kinnell, Toby Bussa, Ann Fisher & Nathan Collamer, Expert and Lay Mental Models of Ecosystems: Inferences for Risk Communication ---evaluates a mental modeling approach to studying differences between lay and expert comprehension of ecosystems.... 10.45 (1999).


F

Ragnar E. Löfstedt, Fairness across Borders: The Barsebäck Nuclear Power Plant --- Discusses the escalation of a controversy between Denmark and Sweden over nuclear reactors at Barsebäck in southern Sweden; also discusses research that might lead to possible solutions.... 7.135 (1996).

Benjamin Davy, Fairness as Compassion: Towards a Less Unfair Facility Siting Policy --- Argues that siting efforts fail because of perceived injustices and urges authorities to search more aggressively for ways to avoid injustice and to cope with the anguish of those who may be unavoidably shortchanged..... 7.99 (1996).

Jeffrey S. Lubbers, Federal Regulation: Administrative Procedure -- Constraints and Opportunities --- Surveys public participation federal administrative process, focusing on research sponsored by the Administrative Conference of the United States.... 1.43 (1990).

Christopher J. Harnett, Federal Technology Transfer: Should We Build Subarus in Bethesda? --- Argues that implementation of policies for encouraging commercial exploitation of federally-funded biomedical research threatens basic science in America.... 1.313 (1990).

Barbara Ruhe Grumet, Fertile Women May Now Apply: Fetal Protection Policies After Johnson Controls --- Looks at a U.S. Supreme Court sex discrimination case from a broad legal and social perspective.... 2.261 (1991).

Joanna Burger & Michael Gochfeld, Fish Advisories: Useful or Difficult to Interpret? --- Notes that fish and shellfish offer significant exposure to environmental toxins but finds that consumer knowledge and other factors may limit efforts to control risk in urban populations.... 7.23 (1996).

Douglas J. Crawford-Brown & Kenneth G. Brown, A Framework for Assessing the Rationality of Judgments in Carcinogenicity Hazard Identification --- Argues that current guideline lack a philosophically rigorous framework and presents an alternative to attend to the process of reasoning towards carcinogenicity judgments..... 8.307 (1997).


G

* Lillian Trettin, Catherine Musham & Richard Jablonski, Genetic Monitoring in the Workplace: A Tool Not a Solution --- differentiate between genetic monitoring and screening, and discuss the potential risks and benefits of predictive testing technologies.... 10.31 (1999).

Kate H. Murashige, Genome Research and Traditional Intellectual Property Protection -- A Bad Fit? --- Addresses the need for a patent system more closely tailored to the needs of biotechnology. For example, the obviousness requirement may interfere with using patents to recoup high costs of work when it could arguably be done by researchers of ordinary skill.... 7.231 (1996).

Sharon F. DiPaolo, Getting through the Door: Threshold Procedural Considerations in Right-to-Die Litigation --- Explains how judges may use mootness, ripeness and standing to avoid getting involved in right-to-die cases. Argues that this may interfere with private decision making and be counterproductive.... 6.59 (1995).

William O. Hennessey, The Greening of Technology Transfer: A Conference Summary --- Briefly reports on an international conference that explored the relationship between patent and other intellectual property laws and those designed to protect the environment and maintain biodiversity.... 6.87 (1995). Several other documents related to that conference are also online at this site.


H

Robert A. Stallings, Hindsight, Organizational Routines and Media Risk Coverage --- Describes how journalists explain catastrophes by coupling them with flaws in human organizations.... 5.271 (1994).

Hans Mathias Kepplinger, Historical Notes on German Press Coverage of Technology --- Accounts for increased negativism in German media coverage of technology by pointing to changes in journalists role definitions and attitudes.... 5.213 (1994).

Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette, How Some Risk Frameworks Disenfranchise the Public --- Responds to a prior characterization of her work.... 8.1 (1997).

Jeffrey N. Gibbs, The Human Genome, FDA and Product Liability --- Describes risks to innovators associated with FDA regulations. Also points out how developers and marketers of products based on human genome research face such risks both before and after marketing.... 7.267 (1996).

Christopher J. Harnett, The Human Genome Project and the Downside of Federal Technology Transfer --- Argues that emphasizing technology transfer at federal institutions will interfere with basic research.... 5.151 (1994).

Jessica Sanchez & Joanna Burger, Hunting and Exposure: Estimating Risk and Future Use at Nuclear Production Sites --- Advocates specific criteria for informed decisions about the future use of contaminated nuclear sites; also compares the implications of official recommendations for one site with results from a study.....[.pdf] 9.109 (1998).


I

William S. Pease, Identifying Chemical Hazards for Regulation: The Scientific Basis and Regulatory Scope of California's Proposition 65 List of Carcinogens and Reproductive Toxicants --- Reviews the the legislative, regulatory and scientific origins of Proposition 65 and suggests better ways to choose future regulatory targets in California and elsewhere.... 3.127 (1992).

Brian C. Cunningham, Impact of the Human Genome Project at the Interface between Patent and FDA Laws --- Stresses the broad scope of biotechnological innovations. Besides endorsing the need for a new oversight commission to deal with potential social issues, suggests, for example, that some products should be treated like biologics rather than new drugs.... 7.253 (1996).

Elke Schneider, Bettina Oppermann & Ortwin Renn, Implementing Structured Participation for Regional Level Waste Management Planning --- Presents a German case study of well-structured public participation incorporated into formal decision-making....[.pdf.] 9.379 (1998).

Joakim Ramsberg & Lennart Sjöberg, The Importance of Cost and Effectiveness for Attitudes toward Lifesaving Interventions --- Presents the results of a study that evaluates Swedish attitudes about risks and corresponding lifesaving interventions.... [.pdf.] 9.271 (1998).

Juanita V. Field, Kenneth Boehm, Kevin Vincent, Jessica Sullivan & Brady Serafin, Individual Control of Risk: Seat Belt Use, Subjective Norms and the Theory of Reasoned Action --- Factor analysis of collected data supports the theory that intention is a major behavior determinate but does not show that seat belt scenarios influence intention.... 4.329 (1993).

Kenneth Boehm, John Keating, Karl Pfefferkorn, Audra Pfeltz, Brady Serafin, Jessica Sullivan, Karen Thode, Kevin Vincent & Juanita Field, Individual Response to Risk as a Function of Normative Social Pressure: A Pilot Study of Seat Belt Use --- Tries to clarify variables influencing behavior when risk is substantial and subject to individual control. Also reports on a pilot study of seat belt use.... 3.199 (1992).

Mary R. English & Robert B. Inerfeld, Institutional Controls for Contaminated Sites: Help or Hazard? --- discusses the different institutional controls available to control long-term site remediation of hazardous waste to prevent exposure to residual contamination.... 10.121 (1999).

Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer & Ragnar E. Löfstedt, Introduction to IIASA Fairness and Siting Symposium --- Notes that, while there is no recipe for successful siting, critical ingredients are identified in that symposium issue.... 7.95 (1996).

Christoph Rehman-Sutter, Involving Others: Toward an Ethical Concept of Risk --- Argues for a juridical concept of risk as it relates to an ethic of care; also contrasts that view with traditional economic risk analysis.....[.pdf] 9.119 (1998).

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L

Scott F. Eaton, Legislative Oversight of Administrative Rule Making in New Hampshire --- Examines legislative oversight of agencies in a small state and discusses ways to increase public scrutiny of rules and public participation in rule making.... 1.131 (1990).

Allan Mazur & Kevin Jacobson, Looking Back: Cyclamate ---second in a series of comments re-evaluating hazards identified in the 1950s and 60s.... 10.95 (1999).

Allan Mazur & Jennifer Bretsch, Looking Back: Synthetic Turf and Football Injuries --- first in a series of comments re-evaluating hazards identified in the 1950s and 60s.... 10.1 (1999).


M

Jonathan Baert Wiener, Managing the Iatrogenic Risks of Risk Management --- Analogizing to concerns that led the practice of medicine to shift from a specialist to a team-based approach, suggests that public and environmental health objectives would be better served if, e.g., regulatory jurisdiction were less atomized.....[.pdf] 9.39 (1998).

Patricia A. McPartland, Mandatory Continuing Education: Does it Really Protect Society from Incompetent Health Professionals? --- Argues that continuing education requirements are needed for professionals whose fields of expertise are growing rapidly.... 1.329 (1990).

Ute J. Dymon, Mapping -- The Missing Link in Reducing Risk Under SARA III --- Explains how maps can, e.g., hasten effective community responses to natural and artificial hazards and laments widespread failure to prepare and use hazard maps more extensively.... 5.337 (1994).

Hans Peter Peters, Mass Media as an Information Channel and Public Arena --- Proposes that several functions of mass media compete and that attempts to improve risk coverage must avoid optimizing one at the expense of others.... 5.241 (1994).

Peter M. Sandman, Mass Media and Environmental Risk: Seven Principles --- Suggests that, when spokespersons for risk sou rces are inept in conveying their messages, they and we pay heavily for their mistakes.... 5.251 (1994).

Thomas G. Field, Jr., Maximizing the Return from Genome Research --- Introduces and explains the origins of a human genome symposium.... 5.95 (1994).

Thomas H. Pigford, Maximum Individual & Vicinity-Average Dose for a Geologic Repository Containing Radioactive Waste --- Explains the basis for his strong dissent to an NAS report on Yucca Mountain.... 8.9 (1997).

Sharon M. Friedman, Megan A. Fitzpatrick & Brenda P. Egolf, Media Coverage of EPA's Draft Dioxin Reassessment Report --- Uses content analysis to examine the utility of news media in democratic decision making.... 10.243 (1999)

Sharon M. Friedman, The Media, Risk Assessment and Numbers: They Don't Add Up --- Argues that, for risks to be reported accurately, journalism educators must help their students understand science, numbers and statistics.... 5.203 (1994).

Catherine Zwetkoff, Mediation in Environmental Conflicts: The Belgian Methodology --- Analyzes the effectiveness and feasibility of traditional ADR techniques for resolving Belgian environmental disputes.... [.pdf.] 9.361 (1998).

Paul J. Ossenbruggen, A Method of Identifying Hazardous Highway Locations Using the Principle of Individual Lifetime Risk --- Presents a scientific framework for identifying hazardous highway locations that may be more easily understood by non-scientists and has potential for comparing highway with other risks to health.....[.pdf] 9.83 (1998).

Caron Chess, A Model of Organizational Responsiveness to Stakeholders --- Explores the relationship between risk management and risk communication and its affect on an organization/stakeholder relationship.... 10.257 (1999)

Susan R. Poulter, Monte Carlo Simulations in Environmental Risk Assessment -- Science, Policy and Legal Issues --- Notes that agencies should anticipate judicial requirements for justification of Monte Carlo simulations and, meanwhile, should consider, e.g., whether their use will make risk assessment policy choices more opaque or apparent.....[.pdf] 9.7 (1998).

Andrew F. Fritzsche, Comment: The Moral Dilemma in the Social Management of Risks --- Offers data seen as demonstrating that irrational fears can lead to grotesque imbalances in efforts to prevent fatalities.... 7.291 (1996).

Sven Ove Hansson, Comment: The Moral Significance of Indetectable Effects ---reassesses Parfit's fifth "mistake in moral mathematics".... 10.101 (1999).

Seth Tuler, Gary E. Machlis & Roger E. Kasperson, Mountain Goat Removal in Olympic National Park: A Case Study of the Role of Organizational Culture in Individual Risk Decisions and Behavior --- Argues that organizational culture may lead to individuals' acceptance of potential costs otherwise exceeding expected benefits.... 3.317 (1992).



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