Taming chance: Risk and the quantification of uncertainty

Policy Sciences

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-27

  Kadvany, John ^a  

^a PricewaterhouseCoopers USA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; METHODOLOGY; POLICY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030319689     PISSN: 00322687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00141477     Document Type: Article

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