Acceptable risk?: making decisions in a toxic environment
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Main Author: Clarke, Lee Ben (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley University of California Press ©1989
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-217) and index
Creating Risks -- Organizational Chaos: Beginning Decontamination and Medical Surveillance -- Constricting the Field of Organizations -- An Excursus on Resolving Organizational Dilemmas: The County Government's Risk -- Organizing Medical Surveillance -- Organizing Decontamination -- The Exposed
"Organizations and modern technology give us much of what we value, but they have also given us Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Bhopal. The question at the heart of this paradox is "What is acceptable risk?" Based on his examination of the 1981 contamination of an office building in Binghamton, New York, Lee Clarke's compelling study argues that organizational processes are the key to understanding how some risks rather than others are defined as acceptable. He finds a pattern of decision-making based on relationships among organizations rather than the authority of individuals or single agencies"--Publisher's description
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 229 pages)
ISBN:0520063031
0520911997
9780520063037
9780520911994

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