The Science of Bureaucracy
Risk Decision-Making and the US Environmental Protection Agency
- Paperback
452 pages
- Release Date
21 January 2020
Summary
How the US Environmental Protection Agency designed the governance of risk and forged its legitimacy over the course of four decades.The US Environmental Protection Agency was established in 1970 to protect the public health and environment, administering and enforcing a range of statutes and programs. Over four decades, the EPA has been a risk bureaucracy, formalizing many of the methods of the scientific governance of risk, from quantitative risk assessment to risk ranking.Demortain traces …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262537940 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 026253794X |
| Author: | David Demortain |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 452 |
| Release Date: | 21 January 2020 |
| Weight: | 732g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 27mm |
| Series: | Inside Technology |
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David Demortain
David Demortain is a senior social scientist of the French Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), based at Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Societes (LISIS).
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