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In Nature's Interests?
This book offers a powerful response to what Varner calls the "two dogmas of environmental ethics"--the assumptions that animal rights philosophies and anthropocentric views are …
Democracy, Risk, and Community
This controversial book explores the connection between technological risk and basic concepts of liberal political theory and practice. Arguing that modern risks are emergent and …
Regulating Toxic Substances
In this paperback reprint of a book originally published in 1993, Carl Cranor argues that the scientific and statistical criteria usually used to determine whether substances are …
Privatizing Public Lands
This work critically examines the thesis that public lands would be more productive if they were private, or, failing that, managed as if they were private. The author argues that …
Acceptable Evidence
Discussions of science and values in risk management have largely focused on how values enter into arguments about risks, that is, issues of acceptable risk. Instead this volume …
Experts in Uncertainty
This is an extensive survey and critical examination of the literature on the use of expert opinion in scientific inquiry and policy making. Cooke considers how expert opinion is …