Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum

DUKE ENVIRONMENTAL LAW & POLICY FORUM

Volume VIIIFall 1997Number 1

Risk in the Republic: Comparative Risk Analysis and Public Policy

Editor's Note
Risk in the Republic Jonathan Baert Wiener1
 

I. The Imperative of Comparative Risk Analysis

Comparative Risk Analysis in the Department of Energy Thomas Grumbly23
 

II. Comparative Risk Analysis in Action

Can Comparative Risk Be Used to Develop Better Environmental Decisions? Ken Jones33
Comparative Risk Projects and Their Effects on Decision Making Jennifer Crawford47
Comparative Risk: What Makes a Successful Project Debra Gutenson 69
Improving Comparative Risk Analysis James Hammitt 81
 

III. Conflicts Between Expert and Public Risk Comparisons

Risk Perception: "Experts" vs. "Lay People" Ann Bostrom 101
A New Account of Expert / Lay Conflicts of Risk Intuition Howard Margolis 115
Comparative Risk Analysis: an Informal Survey of Experts James Hammitt 133
 

IV. Making Risk Policy in the Face of Expert/Public Conflicts

Subtle Vices Behind Environmental Values Frank Cross 151
A Note on "Voluntary" versus "Involuntary" Risks Cass Sunstein 173