Science and Decisions Advancing Risk Assessment

There is a very positive review by Gary Brewer in Science magazine of this book published by the National Academies. Brewer says that it will be the standard reference on risk analysis for years to come.

I was impressed by Brewer's thoughtful discussion of five questions, that are far easier to ask than to answer, and all to often are not addressed:

1. What's the problem?
2. For whom is something a problem?
3. Who is the decision-maker?
4. Why do risk analysis if we already know what to do?
5. So what?