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13 - Risk Perception and Risk Ranking

from Part III - How Individuals and Organizations Actually Make Decisions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2017

M. Granger Morgan
M. Granger Morgan
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Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania
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Theory and Practice in Policy Analysis
Including Applications in Science and Technology
 , pp. 373 - 388
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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