Assessments of regional and global environmental risks : designing processes for the effective use of science in decisionmaking /
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Washington, DC :
Resources for the Future,
[2006]
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Table of 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.