Risk management and hazardous waste : implementation and the dialectics of credibility /

This volume is one of many published as an outgrowth of a study of technological risk management under the auspices of the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), which brings together scientists from industrialized nations, East and West. Editor Wynne, who also authored most chapters, is a scientist-sociologist interested in the different institutions that advanced industrial countries have established to deal with the problem of hazardous waste. After three chapters of conceptual overview, case studies of the Netherlands, Germany, UK, and Hungary are presented. One chapter compares policies of a large number of countries in classifying wastes. The book concludes with four conceptual chapters, the most interesting one of which deals with risk perception. This is a rather difficult book for undergraduates, and not so interesting as Insuring and Managing Hazardous Risks, ed. by P.R. Kleinsdorfer and H.C. Kunreuther (CH, Oct '87), published under the same IIASA research program.-M.T. Katzman, University of Texas at Dallas