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037			_a12248 _bMIT Press
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100	1		_aDemortain, David, _eauthor. _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb2011010061
245	1	4	_aThe science of bureaucracy : _brisk decision making and the US Environmental Protection Agency / _cDavid Demortain.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bThe MIT Press, _c[2020]
300			_a1 online resource (452 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aInside technology
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aRisk sciences : expertise for decision making and dispute -- The invention of quantitative risk assessment -- Prioritizing toxics : the prehistory of risk management -- Inventing the risk assessment-risk management framework -- Ruckelshaus and risk : representing the EPA -- Risk management : the EPA as a decision making system -- Designing a science for decisions -- The rise and fall of comparative risk assessment -- Scientization and the reform of the risk assessment-risk management framework -- Beyond the risk paradigm.
520			_aHow 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.
540			_aCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International _f CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 _uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
588	0		_aTitle details screen.
610	1	0	_aUnited States. _bEnvironmental Protection Agency _xManagement _xHistory.
610	1	7	_aUnited States. _bEnvironmental Protection Agency. _2fast _0(OCoLC)fst00534882
650		0	_aRisk management _xGovernment policy _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aEnvironmental policy _zUnited States _xDecision making.
650		0	_aEnvironmental policy _zUnited States _xHistory.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
830		0	_aInside technology. _0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90604147
856	4	0	_uhttps://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78576 _yFull text is available at the Directory of Open Access Books. Click here to view.
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