Averting Catastrophe: Strategies for Regulating Risky Technologies, <i>by Edward J. Woodhouse and Joseph G. Morone</i>

Abstract

This nonpartisan study of the imperfect but steadily developing system for containing the risks of such technologies as chemicals, nuclear power, and genetic engineering views regulatory efforts over a period of decades, noting the surprisingly low number of disasters, and finds an ad hoc but intelligent social process at work.