The Science of Bureaucracy Risk Decision-Making and the US Environmental Protection Agency

• Main Author: Demortain, David (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2019
• Series: Inside Technology
• Subjects: Science funding & policy; Environmental policy & protocols; Nuclear issues; risk sciences; risk management; dispute; EPA; risk paradigm; ruckelshaus; OSHA; toxics; carcinogens
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 progr...