Aus dem Vorwort des Herausgebers: Die Forschungsgruppe »Gesundheitsrisiken und Präventionspolitik« untersucht Voraussetzungen, Wirkungen und professionelle sowie politische Konfigurationen der Herausbildung von Strategien der sozialen Prävention, vor allem im Hinblick aus die überwiegend...

In the health, safety, and environmental area, negotiated rulemaking, implementation, and compliance are proposed by their advocates as delivering two primary benefits: reduced rulemaking time and decreased litigation over a final agency rule. The experience to date, however, indicates that...

Since every Safety Management System (SMS) is intended to provide a framework by which an organisation manages risk, it is inevitable that accident investigators will take a close interest. The good investigator will always want to understand how the SMS was intended to control risk and how this...

Economists often analyze cross-sectional data to estimate the value people implicit place on attributes of goods using hedonic methods. Usually strong enough assumptions are made on the functional form of utility to point identify individuals' willingness-to-pay (WTP) for changes in attribute...