02390nam a22001457a 4500 81-7033-805-0 375.008 KAS Kasperson, Jeanne X. and Kasperson, Roger Global Environmental Risk Jaipur Rawat Publications 2003 574 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 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 Environmental problems BK 0 0 0 0 HMI HMI GEN 2017-12-04 Kohinoor Book Distributors 975.00 1 375.008 KAS 25474 2018-08-07 2018-08-03 2017-12-21 BK 20840 20840