02342nam a22001217a 4500020001800000082001600018100004600034245003000080260003700110300000800147500203800155650002702193 a81-7033-805-0 a375.008 KAS aKasperson, Jeanne X. and Kasperson, Roger aGlobal Environmental Risk aJaipurbRawat Publicationsc2003 a574 aIntroduction: 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 Part One CHARACTERISING GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS Editors' Introduction 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 3. The risk transition and developing countries: Kirk R. Smith 4. Global risk, uncertainty, and ignorance: Silvio O. Funtowicz and jerome R. Ravetz Part two: VULNERABILITY Editors' Introduction 5. Vulnerability to global environmental change: Diana M. Liverman 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 7. Vulnerability, equity, and global environmental change: Roger E. Kasperson, Jeanne X. Kasperson, and Kirstin Dow Part three: HIGH-RISK REGIONS Editors' Introduction 8. Trajectories of threat: Assessing environmental criticality in nine regions: Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson, and B. L. Turner, II 9. Global change and environmental risks in mountain ecosystems: N.S. Jodha 10. Vulnerability to drought and climate change in Mexico: Diana M. Liverman 11. Sea-level rise and the Bangladesh and Nile deltas: James M. Broadus 12. Sea-level rise and the North Sea: Timothy O'Riordan 13. Sea-lvel rise and the Sea of Japan: Saburo ikeda and Masaaki Kataoka Part Four GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL FUTURES Editors' Introduction 14. Risk and imagining alternative futures: Timorthy O'Riordan and Peter Timmerman 15. Exploraing a sustainable future for Canada: John B. Robinson 16. Social visions of future sustainable societies: Patricia Benjamin, jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson, Jacque L. Emel, and Dianne E. Rocheleau  aEnvironmental problems