Averting Catastrophe: Strategies for Regulating Risky Technologies, <i>by Edward J. Woodhouse and Joseph G. Morone</i>
Political Science QuarterlyPublished 1 January 1987Open access
Dudley J. Burton
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Abstract
This nonpartisan study of the imperfect but steadily developing system for containing the risks of such technologies as chemicals, nuclear power, and genetic engineering views regulatory efforts over a period of decades, noting the surprisingly low number of disasters, and finds an ad hoc but intelligent social process at work.
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