Rating the risks

Environment

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 1979, Pages

  Slovic, Paul ^a   Fischhoff, Baruch ^a   Lichtenstein, Sarah ^a  

^a DECISION RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PREVENTION; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 0018610960     PISSN: 00139157     EISSN: 19399154     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00139157.1979.9933091     Document Type: Article

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