The science of bureaucracy : (Record no. 94020)

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International Standard Book Number 9780262356671
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International Standard Book Number 0262356678
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Cancelled/invalid ISBN 9780262537940
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Cancelled/invalid ISBN 026253794X
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System control number (OCoLC)1130310858
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System control number (OCLCCM-CC)1130310858
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Stock number 12248
Source of stock number/acquisition MIT Press
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Stock number 9780262356671
Source of stock number/acquisition MIT Press
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Holding library MAIN
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Classification number TD171
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Preferred name for the person Demortain, David,
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Authority record control number http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2011010061
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Title The science of bureaucracy :
Remainder of title risk decision making and the US Environmental Protection Agency /
Statement of responsibility, etc David Demortain.
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Place of publication, distribution, etc Cambridge :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc The MIT Press,
Date of publication, distribution, etc [2020]
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Extent 1 online resource (452 pages)
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Series statement Inside technology
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Bibliography, etc Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary, etc 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 the creation of these methods for the governance of risk, the controversies to which they responded, and the controversies that they aroused in turn. He discusses the professional networks in which they were conceived; how they were used; and how they served to legitimize the EPA. Demortain argues that the EPA is structurally embedded in controversy, resulting in constant reevaluation of its credibility and fueling the evolution of the knowledge and technologies it uses to produce decisions and to create a legitimate image of how and why it acts on the environment. He describes the emergence and institutionalization of the risk assessment-risk management framework codified in the National Research Council's Red Book, and its subsequent unraveling as the agency's mission evolved toward environmental justice, ecological restoration, and sustainability, and as controversies over determining risk gained vigor in the 1990s. Through its rise and fall at the EPA, risk decision-making enshrines the science of a bureaucracy that learns how to make credible decisions and to reform itself, amid constant conflicts about the environment, risk, and its own legitimacy.
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Terms governing use and reproduction Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Use and reproduction rights CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Uniform Resource Identifier http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
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Source of description note Title details screen.
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element United States.
Subordinate unit Environmental Protection Agency
General subdivision Management
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element United States.
Subordinate unit Environmental Protection Agency.
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Authority record control number (OCoLC)fst00534882
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Risk management
General subdivision Government policy
Geographic subdivision United States
General subdivision History.
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Topical term or geographic name as entry element Environmental policy
Geographic subdivision United States
General subdivision Decision making.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Environmental policy
Geographic subdivision United States
General subdivision History.
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Genre/form data or focus term Electronic books.
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Uniform title Inside technology.
Authority record control number http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90604147
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Uniform Resource Identifier https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78576
Link text Full text is available at the Directory of Open Access Books. Click here to view.
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