Citizen''s Right to Know - Risk Communication and Public Policy

In 1986, after the disastrous accident at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, Congress passed the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act. Under this act, many business facilities became subject to new reporting requirements with respect to the presence of hazardous substances. Hadden, an associate professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, conducted surveys relating to this act.

List of contents

What Is Right to Know? 1 I The Need for Right to Know 2 I Gaining the Right to Know 3 I Implementing Right to Know: New Jersey and Texas Part 2 Aspects of Right to Know 4 I Institutional Factors 5 I Managing All the Data 6 I Imperfect Information 7 I Risk Perception and Risk Communication 8 I The Political Economy of RTK Part 3 Remedies: Making RTK Work 9 I Improving Right to Know 1O Empowering Citizens, Appendix: The Surveys

About the author

Susan G. Hadden

Summary

In 1986, after the disastrous accident at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, Congress passed the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act. Under this act, many business facilities became subject to new reporting requirements with respect to the presence of hazardous substances. Hadden, an associate professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, conducted surveys relating to this act.

Product details

• Authors: Hadden, Susan G Hadden, Susan G. Hadden
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2021
• EAN: 9780367003548
• ISBN: 978-0-367-00354-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civil Rights, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, United States of America, USA, Civil rights & citizenship, Human rights, civil rights, Central / national / federal government, Central government