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  • Public Reactions to Nuclear Waste

    Citizens’ Views of Repository Siting

    Edición de Riley E. Dunlap, Michael E. Kraft, Eugene A. Rosa ...
    Nuclear waste is going nowhere, and neither is the debate over its disposal. The problem, growing every day, has proven intractable, with policymakers on one side, armed with daunting technical data, and the public on the other, declaring: not in my backyard. This timely volume offers a look past our present impasse into the nature and roots of public viewpoints on nuclear waste disposal.A much ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Risk, Uncertainty and Rational Action

    de Carlo C. Jaeger, Thomas Webler, Eugene A. Rosa, Ortwin Renn ...
    Series series Earthscan Risk in Society
    Risk as we now know it is a wholly new phenomenon, the by-product of our ever more complex and powerful technologies. In business, policy making, and in everyday life, it demands a new way of looking at technological and environmental uncertainty.In this definitive volume, four of the world's leading risk researchers present a fundamental critique of the prevailing approaches to understanding and ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

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  • Safety and Security Review for the Process Industries

    Application of HAZOP, PHA, What-IF and SVA Reviews

    de Dennis P. Nolan ...
    Safety and Security Review for the Process Industries: Application of HAZOP, PHA, What-IF and SVA Reviews, Third Edition, describes the responsibilities, methods, and documentation required for the performance of qualitative hazard analysis for industrial and commercial processes, specifically Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA), What-If, and Hazard and Operability (HAZOP) reviews. It is a guideline ... Leer más

    $134.99 USD

  • Risk Management in Post-Trust Societies

    de Ragnar E Lofstedt ...
    Series series Earthscan Risk in Society
    A thought-provoking and invaluable book for anyone who cares about risk communication and management in the 21st centuryAnna Jung, Director General, European Food Information CouncilProfessor Ragnar Löfstedt has once again produced a most interesting book on risk management and trust, well-based on theory and built on empirical findingsMikael Karlsson, President, Swedish Society for Nature ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

  • Foresight in Action

    Developing Policy-Oriented Scenarios

    Edición de Marjolein van Asselt, Susan van 't Klooster ...
    Series series Earthscan Risk in Society
    Assessing the future is vital in informing public policy decisions. One of the most widespread approaches is the development of scenarios, which are alternative hypothetical futures. Research has indicated, however, that the reality of how professionals go about employing scenarios is often starkly at odds with the theory - a finding that has important ramifications for how the resulting images of ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Uncertainty and Risk

    Multidisciplinary Perspectives

    Edición de Gabriele Bammer, Michael Smithson ...
    Series series Earthscan Risk in Society
    �This is a major, and deeply thoughtful, contribution to understanding uncertainty and risk. Our world and its unprecedented challenges need such ways of thinking! Much more than a set of contributions from different disciplines, this book leads you to explore your own way of perceiving your own area of work. An outstanding contribution that will stay on my shelves for many years.�Dr Neil T. M. ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Export Credit Insurance and Guarantees

    A Practitioner's Guide

    de Z. Salcic ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    The first practitioner handbook on export credit insurance and guarantees, providing manufacturers, exporters, bankers, and lawyers with a much needed resource. The book contains descriptions and analyses of almost every type of export credit insurance and guarantee used in international trade with explanations about the risks inherent in each. ... Leer más

    $62.99 USD

  • Interpreting the Precautionary Principle

    de Timothy O'Riordan ...
    Viewed from the perspective of environmental management, this study describes the implications and applications of the precautionary principle - a theory of avoiding risk even when its likelihood seems remote. This principle has been employed in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the North Atlantic Convention, yet it is not widely understood. This study examines the ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

  • Transboundary Risk Management

    Edición de Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, Gunnar Sjostedt ...
    Series series Earthscan Risk in Society
    Environmental hazards do not respect international boundaries. In this volume, distinguished international researchers make a significant contribution to the understanding and management of transboundary environmental risks.The transboundary risk topics addressed highlight the key political, economic, social and cultural issues of our times, such as how transboundary risks are constructed, how ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • The Precautionary Principle in the 20th Century

    Late Lessons from Early Warnings

    Edición de Paul Harremoes, David Gee, Malcom MacGarvin, Andy Stirling, Jane Keys, Brian Wynne, Sofia Guedes Vaz ...
    The precautionary principle is widely seen as fundamental to successful policies for sustainability. It has been cited in international courts and trade disputes between the USA and the EU, and invoked in a growing range of political debates. Understanding what it can and cannot achieve is therefore crucial. This volume looks back over the last century to examine the role the principle played or ... Leer más

    $254.99 USD

  • Social Contours of Risk

    Volume I: Publics, Risk Communication and the Social

    de Roger E. Kasperson, Jeanne Kasperson ...
    Series series Earthscan Risk in Society
    We live in a 'risk society' where the identification, distribution and management of risks, from new technology, environmental factors or other sources are crucial to our individual and social existence. In The Social Contours of Risk, Volumes I and II, two of the world's leading and most influential analysts of the social dimensions of risk bring together their most important contributions to ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • The Tolerability of Risk

    A New Framework for Risk Management

    Edición de Frederic Bouder, David Slavin, Ragnar E. Lofstedt ...
    Series series Earthscan Risk in Society
    There is an increasing dissatisfaction about how risk is regulated, leading to vivid debates about the use of 'risk assessment' and 'precaution'. As a result, academics, government officials and industry leaders are calling for new approaches and fresh ideas. This book provides a historical and topical perspective on the alternative concept of 'Tolerability of Risk' and its concrete regulatory ... Leer más

    $85.99 USD