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A Process for Incorporating Comparative Risk into Environmental Policymaking in Louisiana
Author(s) -
Thompson Regina,
Templet Paul H.,
Gamman John K.,
McCleary Scott T.,
Reams Margaret A.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
risk analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 130
eISSN - 1539-6924
pISSN - 0272-4332
DOI - 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1994.tb00298.x
Subject(s) - governor , government (linguistics) , risk assessment , environmental planning , ranking (information retrieval) , executive order , business , environmental resource management , political science , risk analysis (engineering) , public administration , engineering , economics , geography , computer science , management , philosophy , linguistics , machine learning , aerospace engineering
The goal of Louisiana's 1990–1991 comparative risk project, also called the Louisiana Environmental Action Plan (LEAP), was to incorporate risk assessment into state environmental planning and policymaking. Scientists, government officials, and citizens were brought together to estimate the relative risk to human health, natural resources, and quality of life posed by 33 selected environmental issues. The issues were then ranked according to their relative estimated risks. It was hoped that this ranking of “comparative risks” would enable state policymakers to target the most important environmental problems and allocate scarce public resources more rationally and efficiently. As a result of the project, the governor issued an Executive Order forming a permanent Public Advisory Committee to continue this type of comparative risk assessment in Louisiana.