Presenting scientific theories within risk assessments

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 271-287

  Marks, Harry ^a   Coleman, Margaret ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Causality; Core and auxiliary hypotheses; Evaluative; Explicative; Falsification; Regulative

Indexed keywords

EID: 18944399321     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807030590925821     Document Type: Review

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