Assessments of regional and global environmental risks
Subtitle: designing processes for the effective use of science in decisionmaking
By: edited by Alexander E. Farrell, Jill Jäger.
Contributors: Farrell, Alexander E.; Jäger, Jill.
Publisher: Resources for the Future
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
Subjects: Environmental impact analysis.; Decision making.
Table of contents: title: Overview: understanding design choices / Alex Farrell, Jill Jäger, and Stacy VanDeveer; title: European politics with a scientific face: framing, asymmetrical participation and capacity in LRTAP / Stacy D. VanDeveer; title: Dissent and trust in multilateral assessments: comparing LRTAP and OTAG / Alexander E. Farrell and Terry J. Keating; title: Applying assessment lessons to new challenges: from sulfur to POPs / Noelle Eckley Selin; title: Making climate change impacts meaningful: framing, methods, and process in coastal zone and agriculture assessments / Marybeth Long Martello and Alastair Iles; title: Dealing with uncertainty: how do you assess the impossible? / Anthony Patt; title: Limits to assessment: an example from regional abrupt climate change; title: Assessment in the United States / David C. Lund; title: Can assessments learn, and if so, how? a study of the IPCC / Bernd Siebenhüner; title: The design and management of international scientific assessments: lessons from the climate regime / Clark A. Miller; title: Designing better environmental assessments for developing countries: lessons from the U.S. country studies program / Oladele A. Ogunseitan; title: Grounds for hope: assessing technological options to manage ozone depletion / Edward A. Parson; title: Global hazards and catastrophic risk: assessments in the reinsurance industry / Mojdeh Keykhah; title: Making sustainability assessments more useful for institutional investors / Bernd Kasemir, Andrea Süess, and Raphael Schaub; title: Improving the practice of environmental assessment / Jill Jäger and Alexander E. Farrell.