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Introduction: Global Environmental risk and society: Roger E. Kasperson, Jeanne X. Kasperson, and Kirstin Dow, with contributions from Exequiel Ezcurra, Diana M. Liverman, James K. Mitchell, Samuel J. Ratick, Timothy O'Riordan, and Peter Timmerman<br/><br/>Part One CHARACTERISING GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS<br/>Editors' Introduction<br/><br/>2. International comparisons of environmental hazards" Vicki Norberg-Bohm, William C. Clark, Bhavik Bakshi, Jo Anne Berkenkamp, Sherry A. Bishko, Mark D Koehler, Jennifer A. Marrs, Chris P. Nielsen, and Ambuj Sagar<br/>3. The risk transition and developing countries: Kirk R. Smith<br/>4. Global risk, uncertainty, and ignorance: Silvio O. Funtowicz and jerome R. Ravetz<br/><br/>Part two: VULNERABILITY<br/>Editors' Introduction<br/>5. Vulnerability to global environmental change: Diana M. Liverman<br/>6. Vulnerability to global environmental change in natural ecosystems and rural areas: A question of latitude?: Exequie; Ezcurra, Alfonso Valiente-Banuet, Oscar Flores-Villela, and Ella Vasquez-Dominguez<br/>7. Vulnerability, equity, and global environmental change: Roger E. Kasperson, Jeanne X. Kasperson, and Kirstin Dow<br/><br/>Part three: HIGH-RISK REGIONS<br/>Editors' Introduction<br/>8. Trajectories of threat: Assessing environmental criticality in nine regions: Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson, and B. L. Turner, II<br/>9. Global change and environmental risks in mountain ecosystems: N.S. Jodha<br/>10. Vulnerability to drought and climate change in Mexico: Diana M. Liverman<br/>11. Sea-level rise and the Bangladesh and Nile deltas: James M. Broadus<br/>12. Sea-level rise and the North Sea: Timothy O'Riordan<br/>13. Sea-lvel rise and the Sea of Japan: Saburo ikeda and Masaaki Kataoka<br/><br/>Part Four GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL FUTURES<br/>Editors' Introduction<br/><br/>14. Risk and imagining alternative futures: Timorthy O'Riordan and Peter Timmerman<br/>15. Exploraing a sustainable future for Canada: John B. Robinson<br/>16. Social visions of future sustainable societies: Patricia Benjamin, jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson, Jacque L. Emel, and Dianne E. Rocheleau<br/> |