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Ethics and Risk Perception
1. Environmental and Human Health
Risk Assessment of Chemicals
T.J. Kasperbauer
Department of Food and Resource Economics, KU
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2. • Risk assessors: Conduct risk assessments,
review products and substances
• Risk managers: Mitigate risks, make decisions
about products
• Often the same person
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3. • Risk assessors: Conduct risk assessments,
review products and substances
• Risk managers: Mitigate risks, make decisions
about products
• Sometimes the same person
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4. Values
• Extra-scientific beliefs about what is important
influence the risk assessment process
• Risk management perhaps even more so
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7. Bisphenol A
• Experts looking at the same research and
coming to very different conclusions.
• Strong disagreements about which research is
relevant.
• Disputes between EFSA and member states
(e.g., Denmark) that don’t seem particularly
scientific.
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13. Environmental Values
• EU policies often take relatively clear stances
on what is valuable and worth protecting
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14. Pesticides
Directive 91/414/EEC:
“member states shall ensure that the use of
plant protection products does not have any
long-term repercussions for the abundance and
diversity of nontarget species”
– Protection of groups and populations
– Short term negative consequences acceptable
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15. Pesticides
• Directive 91/414/EEC:
1) Decrease in biodiversity.
2) Impact on ecosystem functioning and
functionality.
3) Decrease in perceived aesthetic value or
appearance.
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16. Environmental Values
1. All living individual things have value in
themselves, even if they aren’t useful to
us.
2. We should always protect all species
from extinction.
3. We should regard the interests of present
and future people as being equally
important in our policy-making.
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17. Intrinsic and Instrumental Value
• Intrinsic: value internal to a thing
– e.g., existence value
• Instrumental: value from how something is
used or what it helps achieve
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22. Risk as Feelings
• Strong emotional arousal makes people forget
about probabilities.
• Decisions are driven by the significance of the
possible outcome, not its probability.
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30. Third factor
• Large exposure—necessary but not
sufficient for catastrophic effects.
• Many chemicals are pervasive, but few
people die from them.
- different than natural hazards, for
example, or cases from engineering (e.g.,
bridge collapses, plane crashes)
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36. • Involuntary risks often have other characteristics,
like being potentially catastrophic.
• “Voluntary” risks are often just those that have
come to be seen as normal, or have less obvious
consequences.
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38. Prospect Theory
• Eliminating risks is perceived very differently
than reducing risks.
• Certain outcomes are perceived differently
than merely probable outcomes.
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39. Framing Effects
Release of a new chemical will kill 600 highly
endangered birds.
Program A: 200 birds will be saved.
Program B: 1/3 probability of saving 600 birds.
2/3 probability of saving 0 birds.
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40. Framing Effects
Release of a chemical will kill 600 highly
endangered birds.
Program A: 400 birds will die.
Program B: 1/3 probability that no birds will die.
2/3 probability that 600 birds will die.
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