Strategies for Managing Global Environmental Risks Annual Report 1998.

Strategies for Managing Global Environmental Risks Annual Report 1998.

Global risk potentials and their interplay with economic, social and ecological processes of change have emerged as a challenge to the international community. Never before has human intervention in nature assumed global dimensions. This has been driven on the one hand by a growing global population...

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Corporate Authors: German Advisory Council on Global Change (Author), SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2000.
Edition:1st ed. 2000.
Series:World in Transition, 1998
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Environmental economics.
Geoecology.
Environmental geology.
Nature conservation.
Ecology .
Environmental law.
Environmental policy.
Geophysics.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • A Executive summary: Strategies for Managing Global Environmental Risks
  • 1 Global change: A fresh approach to new risks
  • 2 Localizing risks in normal, transitional and prohibited areas
  • 3 Categorization according to risk classes
  • 4 Class-specific strategies and tools for action
  • 5 Prime recommendations for action
  • B Introduction
  • C Concepts of risk and their applications
  • 1 Risk: Concepts and implications
  • 2 Categories of damage and criteria for selecting globally relevant environmental risks
  • 3 Risk characterization
  • 4 Constructing a typology of risk
  • D The environmentally mediated risk potentials of global change
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Technological risks
  • 3 Infectious diseases as a global risk
  • 4 Biological risks
  • 5 Biogeochemical and chemical risks
  • 6 Climate risks
  • 7 Natural disasters
  • 8 Synopsis: An overview of global risk potentials
  • E Integrated risk analysis
  • 1 Risk modulators (amplifiers and intervening factors)
  • 2 Specific vulnerabilities of regions and social groups
  • 3 Examples of complex risks
  • 4 Risk potentials of complex environmental systems
  • F Risk policy
  • 1 Risk evaluation and the choice of tools
  • 2 Liability
  • 3 Environmental liability funds
  • 4 Permitting procedures
  • 5 Environmental levies and tradeable permits
  • 6 Political strategies
  • 7 Risk communication
  • 8 Discursive approaches
  • G Strategies for dealing with unknown risks
  • 1 The importance of unknown risks: Preventing ‘future ozone holes’
  • 2 Discovering unknown risks as an environmental policy task
  • 3 The importance of cognitive, motivational and social factors for dealing with unknown risks
  • 4 Preventive risk management under uncertainty
  • 5 Synthesis
  • H Recommendations
  • 1 Recommendations for research
  • 2 Recommendations for political action
  • I References
  • J Glossary
  • K The German Advisory Council on Global Change
  • L Index.

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