TY - BOOK ID - 14221527 TI - Environmental decisions in the face of uncertainty PY - 2013 SN - 0309130344 0309130352 0309290236 9780309130356 9780309130349 9780309290234 PB - Washington, District of Columbia : National Academies Press, DB - UniCat KW - Environmental policy -- United States -- Decision making. KW - Public health -- Environmental aspects -- United States. KW - Public health -- Risk assessment -- United States. KW - United States. -- Environmental Protection Agency -- Decision making. KW - Environmental policy KW - Public health KW - Public Policy KW - Thinking KW - Social Control, Formal KW - Risk KW - Health Occupations KW - Risk Management KW - Probability KW - Epidemiologic Measurements KW - Mathematical Concepts KW - Sociology KW - Social Control Policies KW - Statistics as Topic KW - Mental Processes KW - Organization and Administration KW - Disciplines and Occupations KW - Public Health KW - Health Care Economics and Organizations KW - Social Sciences KW - Epidemiologic Methods KW - Policy KW - Psychological Phenomena and Processes KW - Health Services Administration KW - Environment and Public Health KW - Health Care KW - Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms KW - Phenomena and Processes KW - Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena KW - Psychiatry and Psychology KW - Investigative Techniques KW - Quality of Health Care KW - Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment KW - Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation KW - Environmental Health KW - Risk Assessment KW - Uncertainty KW - Government Regulation KW - Health Policy KW - Decision Making KW - Earth & Environmental Sciences KW - Environmental Sciences KW - Decision making KW - Risk assessment KW - Environmental aspects KW - Decision making. KW - United States. KW - Community health KW - Health services KW - Hygiene, Public KW - Hygiene, Social KW - Public health services KW - Public hygiene KW - Social hygiene KW - Health KW - Human services KW - Biosecurity KW - Health literacy KW - Medicine, Preventive KW - National health services KW - Sanitation KW - Environment and state KW - Environmental control KW - Environmental management KW - Environmental protection KW - Environmental quality KW - State and environment KW - Environmental auditing KW - Government policy KW - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency KW - US Environmental Protection Agency KW - EPA KW - Agentstvo po okhrane okruzhai︠u︡shcheĭ sredy SShA KW - E.P.A. KW - USEPA KW - United States Environmental Protection Agency KW - US EPA KW - Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:14221527 AB - "The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is one of several federal agencies responsible for protecting Americans against significant risks to human health and the environment. As part of that mission, EPA estimates the nature, magnitude, and likelihood of risks to human health and the environment; identifies the potential regulatory actions that will mitigate those risks and protect public health1 and the environment; and uses that information to decide on appropriate regulatory action. Uncertainties, both qualitative and quantitative, in the data and analyses on which these decisions are based enter into the process at each step. As a result, the informed identification and use of the uncertainties inherent in the process is an essential feature of environmental decision making. EPA requested that the Institute of Medicine (IOM) convene a committee to provide guidance to its decision makers and their partners in states and localities on approaches to managing risk in different contexts when uncertainty is present. It also sought guidance on how information on uncertainty should be presented to help risk managers make sound decisions and to increase transparency in its communications with the public about those decisions. Given that its charge is not limited to human health risk assessment and includes broad questions about managing risks and decision making, in this report the committee examines the analysis of uncertainty in those other areas in addition to human health risks. Environmental Decisions in the Face of Uncertainty explains the statement of task and summarizes the findings of the committee."--Publisher's description. ER -