L11 Econ 451 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Threshold Model, Risk Assessment, Breyers
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Even generic policies advocated by ruckelshaus leave room for policy judgment instead of eliminating uncertainty, they shift it to less visible positions: 2. Ruckelshaus risk, science, and democracy: risk and uncertainty: went from being hardly mentioned in the early years of the epa and not having a place in the caa or cwa to becoming important public attention of. Rosenthal, gray, and graham: legislating acceptable cancer risk from exposure to toxic. Graham, green, and roberts in search of safety: chemicals and cancer risk. Risk assessors should make a conscious and self-critical attempt to distinguish between estimates of the extent of cancer risk and values concerning how much effort society should devote to reducing various levels of risk: 2. Osha p = 1-exp[-(q0+q1d1+ +qndn): underlying biological theory: a tumor progresses through several stages before becoming detectable. Otherwise, policy makers and the public will be misled. Breyer - breaking the vicious circle: toward effective risk regulation.
