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Risk and Responsibility
ISBN: 9780773564671
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / McGill-Queen''s University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Risk -- Sociological aspects; Risk perception -- Sociological aspects; Responsibility -- Sociological aspects;

Controversies over how to manage health and environmental risks are among the most bitter disagreements in contemporary society. Trying to determine what is in the public interest is at the heart of these disagreements, but the core concerns of major sectors industry, governments, and voluntary associations are also at stake. In Canada and elsewhere, defusing the controversies and finding solutions acceptable to all parties have met with little success. Risk and Responsibility attempts to explain why this is so and what might be done about it.

William Leiss is professor emeritus in the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University and author of several books on climate issues, most recently Canada and Climate Change.