Machine generated contents note: 1. Goal: Replace Risk Assessment with Alternatives Assessment -- 2. How Does Risk Assessment Actually Work? -- 3. What Are We Defending with Risk Assessment? -- 4. When Scientists Shut Their Eyes: Pretending That the Safety of Hazardous Activities Can Be Estimated -- 5. When Decision Makers Become Compromised: Pronouncing unnecessary Hazardous Activities "Acceptable" -- 6. When a Society Isn't Serious About Environmental Health: Assessing a Narrow Range of Options -- 7. Who Loves, Uses, or Cooperates with Risk Assessment? -- 8. Unnecessary Societal Triage: Comparative Risk Assessment -- 9. Alternatives Assessment: The Case of Bovine Growth Hormone and Rotational Grazing -- 10. Alternatives Assessment vs. Cost-Benefit Analysis: There Is More to Life Than Money -- 11. We Already Know How to Do Alternatives Assessment -- 12. We Know How to Push for Alternatives Assessments -- 13. essential Features of an Alternatives Assessment -- 14. Society That Assesses Its Alternatives -- 15. Alternatives Assessment: More Information, Fewer Pages -- 16. Getting Started -- 17. Barriers to Alternatives Assessment -- 18. Forces for Alternatives Assessment
Notes
"Published in association with the Environmental Research Foundation."
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-283) and index
