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- catalog abstract ""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 of this body of risk regulation, by contrast, have lacked a similar unifying theory." "In this book, the authors propose that the American tradition of philosophical pragmatism fills this vacuum. They argue that pragmatism offers a better method for conceiving of and implementing risk regulation than the economic paradigm favored by its critics. While pragmatism offers a methodology in support of risk regulation as it was originally conceived, it also offers a perspective from which this legislation can be held up to critical appraisal. The authors employ pragmatism to support risk regulation, but pragmatism also leads them to agree with some of the criticisms against it and even to level new criticisms of their own." "In the end, the authors reject the picture, painted by risk regulations' critics, of widely excessive and irrational regulation, but they do not entirely exonerate risk regulation either. The pragmatic perspective leads them to propose a number of ideas about how risk regulation might be usefully reformed."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12662031.
- catalog contributor b12662032.
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""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 of this body of risk regulation, by contrast, have lacked a similar unifying theory."".
- catalog description ""In the end, the authors reject the picture, painted by risk regulations' critics, of widely excessive and irrational regulation, but they do not entirely exonerate risk regulation either. The pragmatic perspective leads them to propose a number of ideas about how risk regulation might be usefully reformed."--Jacket.".
- catalog description ""In this book, the authors propose that the American tradition of philosophical pragmatism fills this vacuum. They argue that pragmatism offers a better method for conceiving of and implementing risk regulation than the economic paradigm favored by its critics. While pragmatism offers a methodology in support of risk regulation as it was originally conceived, it also offers a perspective from which this legislation can be held up to critical appraisal. The authors employ pragmatism to support risk regulation, but pragmatism also leads them to agree with some of the criticisms against it and even to level new criticisms of their own."".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-265) and index.".
- catalog description "Pragmatism and risk regulation -- Principles of pragmatic risk regulation -- The structure of risk regulation -- The rationale for risk regulation -- The critique of risk regulation -- Valuation methods -- Regulatory impact analysis requirements -- Pragmatic methods of regulation -- Promoting accountable risk regulation.".
- catalog extent "xii, 271 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Risk regulation at risk.".
- catalog identifier "0804745935 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Risk regulation at risk.".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Risk regulation at risk.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "344.73/046 21".
- catalog subject "Environmental law United States.".
- catalog subject "Environmental risk assessment United States.".
- catalog subject "KF3775 .S53 2003".
- catalog subject "Risk assessment United States.".
- catalog subject "Technology Risk assessment United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Pragmatism and risk regulation -- Principles of pragmatic risk regulation -- The structure of risk regulation -- The rationale for risk regulation -- The critique of risk regulation -- Valuation methods -- Regulatory impact analysis requirements -- Pragmatic methods of regulation -- Promoting accountable risk regulation.".
- catalog title "Risk regulation at risk : restoring a pragmatic approach / Sidney A. Shapiro, Robert L. Glicksman.".
- catalog type "text".