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Science 25 April 1980:
Vol. 208. no. 4442, pp. 372 - 375
DOI: 10.1126/science.208.4442.372
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Comment on Societal Risk

David Okrent 1

1 Professor of engineering and applied science at the University of California, Los Angeles 90024

There is a need to measure societal risk more accurately; to examine and reevaluate our priorities in risk reduction; to determine the level of expenditure for risk reduction beyond which adverse economic and political effects may be overriding; and to develop a national approach to risk management.


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