Evidence and Judgement in Environmental Risk Assessment: The Case of the UK Contaminated Land Regime

Risk has emerged as a dominant decision-making paradigm in UK environmental regulation. Much of its appeal rests on the assumption that it provides an objective way of judging the significance of environmental problems so that defensible and proportionate regulatory action can be taken. However, thi...

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Main Author: Evans, Jens C. R.
Published: Oxford Brookes University 2007
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.490524