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Assessments of regional and global environmental risks : designing processes for the effective use of science in decisionmaking / edited by Alexander E. Farrell, Jill Jäger.

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Assessments of regional and global environmental risks : designing processes for the effective use of science in decisionmaking / edited by Alexander E. Farrell, Jill Jäger.
Publication
Washington, DC : Resources for the Future, c2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Farrell, Alexander E.
  • Jäger, Jill.
Description
xii, 301 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Decision making
  • Environmental impact analysis
  • Environmental policy
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Overview: understanding design choices / Alex Farrell, Jill Jäger, and Stacy VanDeveer -- European politics with a scientific face: framing, asymmetrical participation and capacity in LRTAP / Stacy D. VanDeveer -- Dissent and trust in multilateral assessments: comparing LRTAP and OTAG / Alexander E. Farrell and Terry J. Keating -- Applying assessment lessons to new challenges: from sulfur to POPs / Noelle Eckley Selin -- Making climate change impacts meaningful: framing, methods, and process in coastal zone and agriculture assessments / Marybeth Long Martello and Alastair Iles -- Dealing with uncertainty: how do you assess the impossible? / Anthony Patt -- Limits to assessment: an example from regional abrupt climate change -- Assessment in the United States / David C. Lund -- Can assessments learn, and if so, how? a study of the IPCC / Bernd Siebenhüner -- The design and management of international scientific assessments: lessons from the climate regime / Clark A. Miller -- Designing better environmental assessments for developing countries: lessons from the U.S. country studies program / Oladele A. Ogunseitan -- Grounds for hope: assessing technological options to manage ozone depletion / Edward A. Parson -- Global hazards and catastrophic risk: assessments in the reinsurance industry / Mojdeh Keykhah -- Making sustainability assessments more useful for institutional investors / Bernd Kasemir, Andrea Süess, and Raphael Schaub -- Improving the practice of environmental assessment / Jill Jäger and Alexander E. Farrell.
ISBN
  • 1933115041 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 9781933115047 (hardcover : alk. paper)
  • 193311505X (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9781933115054 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2005019552
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library