Development of Procedures for Characterizing and Ranking Environmental and Other Risks

项目执行主任建议开发一种方法工具，对风险进行排序。 由于社会有 由于降低所有风险的能力有限，因此， 必须面对。 将开发的工具将包括公共价值观和 专家评级作为风险评估技术的组成部分。 排序过程 将涉及风险的分类和确定的属性， 将对风险进行评估。 每一组评估员都将进行还原论和 印象主义的排名程序，以尽量减少程序和 框架对风险评估的影响。 此外，私家侦探亦会进行一系列研究， 帮助确定他们开发的程序是否会产生可重复的结果。

The PIs propose to develop a methodological tool for ranking risks. Since the society has a limited ability to reduce all risks, there is an obvious benefit in prioritizing the risks that must be confronted. The tool to be developed will include both public values and experts ratings as components of the risk assessment technique. The ranking process will involve categorization of the risks and identification of the attributes upon which the risks will be evaluated. Each group of assessors will both perform reductionistic and impressionistic ranking procedures in order to minimize the influence of procedural and framing effects on the assessment of risk. The PIs will also conduct a series of studies to help determine whether the procedure they develop will yield reproducible results.