Global environmental risk / edited by Jeanne X. Kasperson and Roger Kasperson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kasperson, Jeanne X.

Kasperson, Roger E.

Series:

Risk, society, and policy series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental risk assessment.

Global environmental change.

Physical Description:

xvii, 574 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Tokyo ; New York : United Nations University Press ; London ; Sterling, Va. : Earthscan, 2001.

Summary:

The dangers of environmental change for people and what they value is what makes environmental issues so important for our future. This volume presents a comprehensive analysis of environmental risks. Contributors assess the identification and causes of risks, who and what is vulnerable to them, their regional distribution and the policies and measures for mitigating them. The editions provide an extensive introduction to the issues and introductions to each part, showing that while global risk futures may be unavoidable, they are still amenable to risk analysis and carefully designed policies for amelioration.

Contents:

International comparisons of environmental hazards / Vicki Norberg-Bohm .. [et al.]

The risk transition and developing countries / Kirk R. Smith

Global risk, uncertainty, and ignorance / Silvio 0. Funtowicz and Jerome R. Ravetz

Vulnerability to global environmental change / Diana M. Liverman

Vulnerability to global environmental change in natural ecosystems and rural areas : a question of latitude? / Exequiel Ezcurra .. [et al.]

Vulnerability, equity, and global environmental change / Roger E. Kasperson, Jeanne X. Kasperson, and Kirstin Dow

Trajectories of threat : assessing environmental criticality in nine regions / Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson, and B. L. Turner, II

Global change and environmental risks in mountain ecosystems / N. S. Jodha

Vulnerability to drought and climate change in Mexico / Diana M. Liverman

Sea-level rise and the Bangladesh and Nile deltas / James M. Broadus

Sea-level rise and the North Sea / Timothy O'Riordan

Sea-level rise and the Sea of Japan / Saburo Ikeda and Masaaki Kataoka

Risk and imagining alternative futures / Timothy O'Riordan and Peter Timmerman

Exploring a sustainable future for Canada / John B. Robinson

Social visions of future sustainable societies / Patricia Benjamin .. [et al.].

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 506-562) and index.

ISBN:

9280810278

1853838012

1853838004

OCLC:

45873537