Risk Analysis: Prospects and Opportunities

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Plenary: Twenty Year Retrospective on 1969 Science Paper of C. Starr, “Social Benefit vs. Technological Risk”....Pages 1-5
Proposition 65: Risk Communication and Regulatory Policy....Pages 7-15
Societal Acceptance of Controversial Facilities: The Role of Two Public Participation Strategies—Negotiation and Risk Communication....Pages 17-24
Liability and the Economic Risks of Genetically Engineered Microbial Agents in Agriculture....Pages 25-35
A Method for Ranking the Severity of Foodborne Illnesses....Pages 37-43
A Graphical Display of Risk Information....Pages 45-53
Comparing Human and Animal Cancer Risk Models Using Multistage Theory: Exponential vs. Relative vs. Additive Risk....Pages 55-63
Application of Ridge Regression and Principal Component Analysis to Specialty Glass Data for Encapsulation of Nuclear Waste....Pages 65-74
The Use of Probabilistic Risk Assessment in Emergency Response Planning for Nuclear Power Plant Accidents....Pages 75-84
Risk Tracers: Surrogates for Assessing Health Risks....Pages 85-92
Science Advisory Board’s Judgments in the Assessment of the Risk of Environmental Contaminants....Pages 93-101
The Impact of Risk Management Legislation on Small Counties....Pages 103-106
Community-Level Use of Risk Analysis: A Case Study....Pages 107-116
Diffusion of Emergency Warning: Comparing Empirical and Simulation Results....Pages 117-134
A Comparison of Successful and Unsuccessful Public Involvement: A Practitioner’s Viewpoint....Pages 135-141
Elicitation of Natural Language Representations of Uncertainty Using Computer Technology....Pages 143-152
Social Conflict Assessment in the Design of Risk Management Systems....Pages 153-165
A New Limit-Line Approach to Compare Large Scale Societal Accidents....Pages 167-177
Beyond Risk Analysis: Aspects of the Theory of Individual Choice Under Risk....Pages 179-185
Risk Assessment and Risk Management: Their Separation Should Not Mean Divorce....Pages 187-196
The Assessment of Incineration Risks (AIR) Model....Pages 197-211
Organizational Factors in Reliability Models....Pages 213-227
Risk-Cost Tradeoff Analysis of Oil vs. Coal Fuels for Power Generation....Pages 229-238
Analysis of Noncancer Health Risks Associated with Hazardous Air Pollutants....Pages 239-247
A Bayesian Approach to Import Sample Selection....Pages 249-259
Safety Factors and Residual Cancer Risks....Pages 261-270
Risk Perception of Technologies: Observations from Mainland China....Pages 271-274
Differences in Risks of Commodity Chemical Versus Specialty Chemical Production Facilities....Pages 275-283
Acceptable Risk in Regulation: The Impact of Recent Court Decisions on Public Policy for Risk Management....Pages 285-292
Risk Assessment of Mixtures: A Model Based on Mechanisms of Action and Interaction....Pages 293-303
Sensitive and Hypersusceptible Populations: Risk Assessment Considerations for Exposure to Single Chemicals or Chemical Mixtures....Pages 305-313
Quantitative Cancer Dose-Response Modeling for All Ages....Pages 315-335
Critical Item Ranking for the Space Shuttle Main Engine....Pages 337-346
Risk Assessment and Risk Management for an Experimental Nuclear Waste Processing Facility....Pages 347-355
Cross-Entropy Estimation of Distributions Based on Scarce Data....Pages 357-366
Human Error in the Transportation of Spent Nuclear Fuel....Pages 367-378
Estimation of Synergy in Risk Analysis Using Orthogonality Principles, Ancillary Variables and Multivariate Analysis....Pages 379-386
Risk Communication: Talking About Risk Reduction Instead of Acceptable Risk....Pages 387-392
Development and Application of a Shower Risk Assessment Model....Pages 393-403
The Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Products, Processes and Wastes from the U.S. to Third World Nations: A Prognosis....Pages 405-415
Development of a Generic Knowledge-Based Risk Assessment System....Pages 417-423
The Role of Salient Fates and Anxiety in Hazard Perception....Pages 425-431
Development of Robust Measures of Attitude Towards Risk....Pages 433-448
Platitudes and Comparisons: A Critique of Current (Wrong) Directions in Risk Communication....Pages 449-454
Cancer Risk Prediction for Carbon Tetrachloride Using Pharmacokinetic and Cell-Kinetic Models....Pages 455-470
A General Model for Quantitative Risk Comparisons....Pages 471-481
Strength of Preference and Risky Utility: An Empirical Study of Hazardous Waste Facility Siting....Pages 483-491
Risk Aversion and Utility Function of Health: Experimental Determinations....Pages 493-507
New Technologies, New Hazards? A Systematic Approach....Pages 509-520
Value-Impact Analysis of Low Temperature Overpressure Reduction Alternatives....Pages 521-534
Carcinogenic Risk of Benzene Derived from Animal and Human Data....Pages 535-545
Risk and Consent....Pages 547-554
Risk Analysis Issues in Developing Countries....Pages 555-564
Risk Assessment — Science or Fiction?....Pages 565-574
Reducing Uncertainty in Risk Assessment: Exposure Assessment....Pages 575-588
The Role of Risk Analysis in Protecting Computer Hardware, Software and Information....Pages 589-597
Methodology for Calculating Reactor Vessel Fracture Probability Integrated Over Plant Lifetime....Pages 599-617
An Analysis of the Structure of Chemical Accidents in the U.S. for Local Emergency Response Planning....Pages 619-625
Evaluation of a Risk-Bounding Approach for Setting Environmental Priorities....Pages 627-639
Impact of Aging on Availability and Spares....Pages 641-654
Evaluation of Risk Assessment as Evidence for Decision Making....Pages 655-665
Risk Assessment of the Army’s Chemical Stockpile Disposal Program....Pages 667-685
Municipal Solid Waste Management: Evaluating the Alternatives....Pages 687-695
Toxic Air Pollutants and Noncancer Health Risks....Pages 697-705
Quantitative Risk Assessment of Commercial Hazardous Waste Facilities: A TSDF Rating Method for Generators....Pages 707-721
Effects of Analytical Data Gathering and Handling Techniques on Calculated Risk Levels at Superfund Sites....Pages 723-730
Measurement Uncertainty in Epidemiological Studies of Two Cohorts Exhibiting Benzene-Induced Leukemia....Pages 731-739
Organ Specificity of Rodent Tumor Induction: A Test of Statistical and Graphical Methods by Examination of Tumor Induction from Ingestion of Selected Substances....Pages 741-759
Back Matter....Pages 761-767