Risk Versus Risk

by Graham, John D.; Wiener, Jonathan Baert

• ISBN13: 9780674773073
• ISBN10: 0674773071
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-09-30
• Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr

Summary

We see the stories in the newspaper nearly every day: a drug hailed as a breakthrough treatment turns out to cause harmful side effects; controls implemented to reduce air pollution are shown to generate hazardous solid waste; bans on dangerous chemicals result in the introduction of even more risky substitutes. Could our efforts to protect our health and the environment actually be making things worse? In Risk versus Risk, John D. Graham, Jonathan Baert Wiener, and their colleagues at the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis marshal an impressive set of case studies which demonstrate that all too often our nation's campaign to reduce risks to our health and the environment is at war with itself.

Table of Contents

Preface

Abbreviations

The Region

The Coming of The Nabataeans

Pompey and his Successors

The Early Principle

The Flowering of Nabataea

The New Province

Boundaries and Defenses

The Impact of Septimius Severus

From Philip to Zenobia

King of All The Arabs Appendixes

The New Inscription from Baraqish

Nabataeans and Romans in The Wadi Sirhan

The Governors of Arabia

Ancient Maps of Roman Arabia Plans Plates

Bibliography

Index

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