Rights, Explanation, and Risks

Greater risks, fewer rights: U.S. farmworkers and pesticides.

Pesticide Action Network, United Farmworkers of America, and California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation analyzed California government data on agricultural poisonings and enforcement of worker safety standards. Nearly 500 pesticide poisonings were reported for California farmworkers every year from 1997 to 2000. The actual number of pesticide-related illnesses is unknown, since many poisoning...

Limiting risks by curtailing rights: a response to Dr Ryan.

It has been argued that the inherent risks of advance directives made by healthy people are disproportionate to the potential benefits, particularly if the directive is implementable in cases of reversible mental incapacity. This paper maintains that the evidence for such a position is lacking. Furthermore, respect for the principle of autonomy requires that individuals be permitted to make ris...

Crisis planning to manage risks posed by animal rights extremists.

Among the multitude of crises that US research institutions may face are those caused by animal rights activists. While most activists opposed to animal research use peaceful and lawful means of expressing their opinions, some extremists resort to illegal methods. Arson, break-ins, and theft with significant property damage at US animal research facilities began in the 1980s. The most troubling...

Red Reason and Green Rights Illuminationist.Anthropology and Human Rights

a two-objective robust optimization model for project risks response selection and explanation solution method

risk management is one of the most important aspects of project management that identifies, assesses and responds to project risks. although many papers have been published in project risk response, presented tools and methods are poor. hence, in this paper, we present an optimization model to respond project risk that seeks to optimize two key criteria of project: cost and time. the proposed m...