A Citizen's Right to Know: Risk Communication and Public Policy

From Library Journal

In 1986, after the disastrous accident at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, Congress passed the Emergency Planning and Community Right-To-Know Act. Hadden, an associate professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, conducted surveys in Texas, New Jersey, and Massachusetts, examining citizens' access to information about hazardous substances in their community. Well researched but blandly written, the book critiques administrative policies and is not a how-to manual for citizen activists. While Hadden's recommendations for information communication by agencies are helpful, the law has apparently not engendered much excitement. Recommended only where there is specific concern.
- Terry Plum, Middlebury Coll . Lib., Vt.
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