Assessments of regional and global environmental risks : designing processes for the effective use of science in decisionmaking /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Farrell, Alexander E., Jäger, Jill
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Resources for the Future, [2006]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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.