Howard Kunreuther

Gedeeltelijk georganiseerd door Wharton's Risk Management en Decision Processes Center, brengt het boek toonaangevende onderzoekers van Wharton's bedrijfsfaculteit samen die laten zien hoe de nieuwste benaderingen van besluitvorming kunnen worden toegepast vanuit vier verschillende invalshoeken: de persoonlijke, die van de leidinggevende, die van de onderhandelaar en die van de consument. Meer

When Congress passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, it directed the Department of Energy to locate, study, license, and develop a deep underground repository for high-level nuclear wastes. Meer

A challenge facing society today is how to develop a meaningful strategy for integrated hazardous waste management. Meeting this challenge was the principal motivation for the conference on "Risk Assessment and Risk Management Strategies for Hazardous Waste Storage and Disposal Prob­ lems," held at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania on May 18-19, 1988. Meer

This book explores siting dilemmas - situations in which an "authority" (e.g., Congress, a consortium of utilities) deems it in the best interest of society to build a facility such as an incinerator, but opponents living near the proposed site thwart the plan. Meer