Acceptable Evidence
Science and Values in Risk Management

Discussions of science and values in risk management often focus on how values enter into arguments about risk. This volume concentrates instead on how values enter into the collection, interpretation, communication and evaluation of the acceptability of the evidence of risk.

Discussions of science and values in risk management have largely focused on how values enter into arguments about risks, that is, issues of acceptable risk. Instead this volume concentrates on how values enter into collecting, interpreting, communicating, and evaluating the evidence of risks, that is, issues of the acceptability of evidence of risk.