| Description |
xii, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Overview: understanding design choices / Alex Farrell, Jill Jäger, and Stacy VanDeveer -- European politics with a scientific face: framing, asymmetrical participation and capacity in LRTAP / Stacy D. VanDeveer -- Dissent and trust in multilateral assessments: comparing LRTAP and OTAG / Alexander E. Farrell and Terry J. Keating -- Applying assessment lessons to new challenges: from sulfur to POPs / Noelle Eckley Selin -- Making climate change impacts meaningful: framing, methods, and process in coastal zone and agriculture assessments / Marybeth Long Martello and Alastair Iles -- Dealing with uncertainty: how do you assess the impossible? / Anthony Patt -- Limits to assessment: an example from regional abrupt climate change -- Assessment in the United States / David C. Lund -- Can assessments learn, and if so, how? a study of the IPCC / Bernd Siebenhüner -- The design and management of international scientific assessments: lessons from the climate regime / Clark A. Miller -- Designing better environmental assessments for developing countries: lessons from the U.S. country studies program / Oladele A. Ogunseitan -- Grounds for hope: assessing technological options to manage ozone depletion / Edward A. Parson -- Global hazards and catastrophic risk: assessments in the reinsurance industry / Mojdeh Keykhah -- Making sustainability assessments more useful for institutional investors / Bernd Kasemir, Andrea Süess, and Raphael Schaub -- Improving the practice of environmental assessment / Jill Jäger and Alexander E. Farrell |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Risk assessment.
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Environmental policy.
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Environmental impact analysis.
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Decision making.
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| Author |
Farrell, Alexander E.
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Jäger, Jill.
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| LC no. |
2005019552 |
| ISBN |
1933115041 hardback |
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193311505X paperback |
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