Global Environmental Risk

by Kasperson, Jeanne X.; Kasperson, Roger E.

• ISBN13: 9789280810271
• ISBN10: 9280810278
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-10-01
• Publisher: Brookings Inst Pr

Summary

This book examines the distinctive challenges posed by global environmental risks and considers means of identifying and addressing the issues of global environmental change. Subjects discussed include: international comparisons of environmental hazards; risk transition and developing countries; vulnerability studies and environmental change; environmental risk assessment in high-risk regions such as mountain ecosystems and the vulnerability of regions due to drought, climate change and sea-level rises; and exploring alternative future options for sustainable development.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	xi
Acknowledgements	xvii
Introduction
Introduction: Global environmental risk and society	1	(48)
Roger E. Kasperson
Jeanne X. Kasperson
Kirstin Dow
Diana M. Liverman
James K. Mitchell
Samuel J. Ratick
Timothy O'Riordan
Peter Timmerman
Part One CHARACTERIZING GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL RISKS	49	(146)
Editor's Introduction	51	(4)
International comparisons of environmental hazards	55	(93)
Vicki Norberg-Bohm
William C. Clark
Bhavik Bakshi
Jo Anne Berkenkamp
Sherry A. Bishko
Mark D. Koehler
Jennifer A. Marrs
Chris P. Nielsen
Ambuj Sagar
The risk transition and developing countries	148	(25)
Kirk R. Smith
Global risk, uncertainty, and ignorance	173	(22)
Silvio O. Funtowicz
Jerome R. Ravetz
Part Two VULNERABILITY	195	(78)
Editor's Introduction	197	(4)
Vulnerability to global environment change	201	(16)
Diana M. Liverman
Vulnerability to global environmental change in natural ecosystems and rural areas: A question of latitude?	217	(30)
Exequiel Ezcurra
Alfonso Valiente-Banuet
Oscar Flores-Villela
Ella Vazquez-Dominguez
Vulnerability, equity, and global environmental change	247	(26)
Roger E. Kasperson
Jeanne X. Kasperson
Kirstin Dow
Part Three HIGH-RISK REGIONS	273	(150)
Editors' Introduction	275	(5)
Trajectories of threat: Assessing environmental criticality in nine regions	280	(26)
Jeanne X. Kasperson
Roger E. Kasperson
B. L. Turner, II
Global change and environmental risks in mountain ecosystems	306	(37)
N. S. Jodha
Vulnerability to drought and climate change in Mexico	343	(10)
Diana M. Liverman
Sea-level rise and the Bangladesh and Nile deltas	353	(20)
James M. Broadus
Sea-level rise and the North Sea	373	(24)
Timothy O'Riordan
Sea-level rise and the Sea of Japan	397	(26)
Saburo Ikeda
Masaaki Kataoka
Part Four GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL FUTURES	423	(83)
Editor's Introduction	425	(4)
Risk and imagining alternative futures	429	(22)
Timothy O'Riordan
Peter Timmerman
Exploring a sustainable future for Canada	451	(16)
John B. Robinson
Social visions of future sustainable societies	467	(39)
Patricia Benjamin
Jeanne X. Kasperson
Roger E. Kasperson
Jacque L. Emel
Dianne E. Rocheleau
References	506	(57)
Contributors	563	(3)
Index	566