Is a Scientific Assessment of Risk Possible? Value Assumptions in the Canadian Alachlor Controversy

1 January 1991

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review/Revue Canadienne de Philosophie

Vol. 30 (3) , 235-247
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0012217300011628

Abstract

Increasingly our society relies upon government regulatory agencies to protect its people, its institutions and its environment from the negative impacts of new technologies. These agencies are saddled with the task of deciding among strongly conflicting viewpoints represented by a wide range of interest groups and “value communities” within the society. When regulatory decisions are made some interests and values are protected while others are curtailed.

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