Harvard Center for Risk Analysis has published the latest in the "Risk in Perspective" series. This issue describes the National Research Council’s newly released “Science and Decisions: Advancing Risk Assessment,” which provides a framework for the conduct and use of risk assessment at the Environmental Protection Agency together with scientific and technical recommendations for improving risk analysis. The report is a major update to the NRC’s landmark 1983 “Red Book” (“Risk Assessment in the Federal Government: Managing the Process”). Harvard Center for Risk Analysis faculty member Jonathan Levy was a member of the NRC committee that prepared the new report and shares his thoughts on it in the attached “Risk in Perspective.”

To download the report: http://www.hcra.harvard.edu/rip/rip_Feb_2009.pdf
Vist the HCRA: http://www.hcra.harvard.edu