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Federal legislation designed to prevent and remedy environmental pollution was quickly augmented by the passage of state and local laws. These laws manifested the deep public concern for the preservation of environmental quality, the maintenance of reasonable ecological balances in nature, and the protection of human health.
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The papers in this volume define some important issues in hazard management that are emerging during this national reexamination of our environmental policies. The authors urge us to recognize that successful management of technological hazards increasingly depends on resolution of these issues.
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Ahearne, and Robert W Kates describe the ways in which issues raised in the first two parts of the volume are either resolved or, if unresolved, serve as impediments to effective hazard management.
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Huber argues that judicial compensation is frequently inefficient and inequitable for hazard victims and responsible parties because of this shift in tort law, and he suggests that compensation would be more equitable if such decisions were made by an administrative agency. Finally, Kasperson and Klacsmann suggest that unsuccessful hazard managers fail to develop a participatory framework for managing technological hazards so that information about perceived risk can be effectively shared among regulators, scientists and engineers, industry representatives, and the public.
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Reliable and credible scientific and technological institutions could assist both short- and long-term hazard management efforts by immediate and high-quality reporting of events involving technological hazards, such as the Three Mile Island accident and the Bhopal tragedy. Safer design of potentially hazardous facilities and processes would reduce risks to health and the environment and may be more cost-effective and more equitable than other regulatory controls.
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