Acceptable Risk? - Making Decisions in a Toxic Environment

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List of contents

Creating Risks
Organizational Chaos" Beginning Decontamination and Medical Surveillance
Constricting the Field of Organizations
As Excursus on Resolving Organizational Dilemmas: The County Government's Risk
Organizing Medical Surveillance
Organizing Decontamination
The Exposed
Organizing Risk
Appendix A: The Players
Appendix B: A Methodological Accounting
References
List of Interviews

About the author

Lee Clarke is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University.

Summary

Organizations and modern technology give us much of what we value, but they have also given us Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and Bhopal. The question at the heart of this paradox is "What is acceptable risk?" Based on his examination of the 1981 contamination of an office building in Binghamton, New York, Lee Clarke's compelling study argues that organizational processes are the key to understanding how some risks rather than others are defined as acceptable. He finds a pattern of decision-making based on relationships among organizations rather than the authority of individuals or single agencies.

Product details

• Authors: Lee Clarke, Clarke Lee
• Assisted by: Lee Clarke (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.11.1991
• EAN: 9780520076570
• ISBN: 978-0-520-07657-0
• No. of pages: 242
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; The environment, Science / Environmental Science