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• Building Consensus Through Risk Assessment and Management of the Department of Energy's Environmental Remediation Program (1994), by National Research Council (HTML with commentary at NAP)

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• Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty: A Report Prepared for the United Church of Christ Justice and Witness Ministries (Cleveland: United Church of Christ, 2007), by Robert D. Bullard, Paul Mohai, Robin Saha, and Beverly Wright (PDF at cloudfront.net)
• Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States: A National Report on the Racial and Socio-Economic Characteristics of Communities With Hazardous Waste Sites (New York: United Church of Christ, 1987), by United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice (PDF at ucc.org)
• Long-Lived Legacy: Managing High-Level and Transuranic Waste at the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex (OTA-BP-O-83; Washington: GPO, 1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton
• Complex Cleanup: The Environmental Legacy of Nuclear Weapons Production (1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• From Pollution to Prevention: A Progress Report on Waste Reduction (1987), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Finding the Rx for Managing Medical Wastes (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Dioxin Treatment Technologies (1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Ocean Incineration: Its Role in Managing Hazardous Waste (OTA-O-313; 1986), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Disposal of Chemical Weapons: Alternative Technologies (1992), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Tracking Toxic Substances at Industrial Facilities: Engineering Mass Balance Versus Materials Accounting (1990), by National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (page images with commentary at NAP)

• An Evaluation of Options for Managing Greater-Than-Class-C Low-Level Radioactive Waste (1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Long-Lived Legacy: Managing High-Level and Transuranic Waste at the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex (OTA-BP-O-83; Washington: GPO, 1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton

• Long-Lived Legacy: Managing High-Level and Transuranic Waste at the DOE Nuclear Weapons Complex (OTA-BP-O-83; Washington: GPO, 1991), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton

• Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty: A Report Prepared for the United Church of Christ Justice and Witness Ministries (Cleveland: United Church of Christ, 2007), by Robert D. Bullard, Paul Mohai, Robin Saha, and Beverly Wright (PDF at cloudfront.net)
• Toxic Wastes and Race in the United States: A National Report on the Racial and Socio-Economic Characteristics of Communities With Hazardous Waste Sites (New York: United Church of Christ, 1987), by United Church of Christ Commission for Racial Justice (PDF at ucc.org)

• Nuclear Wastes: Technologies for Separations and Transmutation (1996), by National Research Council Board on Radioactive Waste Management (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Trouble in the Air: Global Warming and the Privatised Atmosphere (ca. 2005), ed. by Patrick Bond and Rehana Dada (PDF at The Corner House)

• Assessing Contractor Use in Superfund (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Nonnuclear Industrial Hazardous Waste: Classifying for Hazard Management (OTA-TM-M-9; 1981), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files with commentary at Princeton

• Review and Evaluation of Alternative Chemical Disposal Technologies (1996), by National Research Council Board on Army Science and Technology (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Alternative Technologies for the Destruction of Chemical Agents and Munitions (1993), by National Research Council Committee on Alternative Chemical Demilitarization Technologies and National Research Council Board on Army Science and Technology (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Review of Systemization of the Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (1996), by National Research Council Board on Army Science and Technology (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Issues in Medical Waste Management: Background Paper (Washington: GPO, 1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Issues in Medical Waste Management: Background Paper (Washington: GPO, 1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• Alternative Technologies for the Destruction of Chemical Agents and Munitions (1993), by National Research Council Committee on Alternative Chemical Demilitarization Technologies and National Research Council Board on Army Science and Technology (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant: A Potential Solution for the Disposal of Transuranic Waste (1996), by National Research Council Board on Radioactive Waste Management (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant: A Potential Solution for the Disposal of Transuranic Waste (1996), by National Research Council Board on Radioactive Waste Management (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Nuclear Wastes: Technologies for Separations and Transmutation (1996), by National Research Council Board on Radioactive Waste Management (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Glass as a Waste Form and Vitrification Technology (1996), by National Research Council Board on Radioactive Waste Management (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Calamity Theory: Three Critiques of Existential Risk (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2021), by Joshua Schuster and Derek Woods
  • HTML with commentary at umn.edu
  • PDF files with commentary at Proect MUSE
• Uses of Risk Analysis to Achieve Balanced Safety in Building Design and Operations (1991), by National Research Council Building Research Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Understanding Risk: Informing Decisions in a Democratic Society, ed. by Paul C. Stern and Harvey W. Fineberg (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Issues in Risk Assessment (1993), by National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Hazards: Technology and Fairness (1986), by National Academy of Engineering (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Gene Drives on the Horizon: Advancing Science, Navigating Uncertainty, and Aligning Research with Public Values (Washington: National Academies Press, c2016), by National Research Council Board on Life Sciences (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• At Our Own Peril: DoD Risk Assessment in a Post-Primacy World (Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute and U.S. Army War College Press, 2017), by Nathan Freier, Christopher M. Bado, Christopher J. Bolan, Robert S. Hume, and J. Matthew Lissner (multiple formats with commentary at Army War College)
• WIC Nutrition Risk Criteria: A Scientific Assessment (1996), by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment (2016), by U.S. Global Change Research Program (2009- ), ed. by Allison Crimmins, John M. Balbus, Janet L. Gamble, C. B. Beard, Jesse E. Bell, Daniel Dodgen, Rebecca J. Eisen, Neal Fann, Michelle D. Hawkins, Stephanie C. Herring, Lesley Jantarasami, David M. Mills, Shubhayu Saha, Marcus C. Sarofim, Juli Trtanj, and Lewis H. Ziska (PDF files with commentary at globalchange.gov)

• Multi Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment: The Cornerstone of the National Mitigation Strategy (Washington: Federal Emergency Management Agency, 1997), by United States Federal Emergency Management Agency (page images at HathiTrust)

• Risk Criticism: Precautionary Reading in an Age of Environmental Uncertainty (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2016), by Molly Wallace
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at JSTOR

• Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States (2009), by Thomas Karl, Jerry M. Melillo, and Thomas C. Peterson (PDF with commentary at globalchange.gov)
• Fourth National Climate Assessment (2 volumes, 2017-2018), by U.S. Global Change Research Program (2009- )
  • Volume I (Climate Science Special Report): illustrated HTML at globalchange.gov
  • Volume II (Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States): illustrated HTML and PDF files at globalchange.gov
• Climate Change 2001: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (HTML and PDF in Norway)

• Spills of Nonfloating Oils: Risk and Response, by National Research Council Marine Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Averting Catastrophe: Strategies for Regulating Risky Technologies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986), by Joseph G. Morone and Edward J. Woodhouse (HTML at UC Press)

• Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States (2009), by Thomas Karl, Jerry M. Melillo, and Thomas C. Peterson (PDF with commentary at globalchange.gov)

• Poultry Inspection: The Basis for a Risk-Assessment Approach, by National Research Council Food and Nutrition Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Orbiting Debris: A Space Environmental Problem (OTA-BP-ISC-72; 1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

More items available under broader and related terms at left.