Environmental Risks, Volume 9
Subtitle: Perception, Evaluation and Management (Research in Social Problems and Public Policy)
Contributors: Gisela Bohm (Editor); Josef Nerb (Editor); Timothy McDaniels (Editor); Hans Spada (Editor)
Publisher: JAI Press
Published: December 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780762308064
Subjects: Social impact of environmental issues; History; Environmental Risk (Engineering); Technology; Psychology; Science/Mathematics; Sociology - General; Applied Psychology; Psychology & Psychiatry / Applied Psychology; Science-History; Social Science-Sociology - General; Environmental Engineering & Technology
First sentence: In recent years, the impact of human activities on global changes in the natural environment and on human living conditions has become a controversial issue in public debate and politics as well as a major challenge for the natural and social sciences.