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61. Assessments of Regional and Global Environmental Risks

    Designing Processes for the Effective Use of Science in Decisionmaking

    Edited by Alexander E. Farrell, Jill Jäger

    As environmental challenges grow larger in scale and implications, it is increasingly important to apply the best scientific knowledge in the decisionmaking process. Editors Farrell and J?ger present environmental assessments as the bridge between the expert knowledge of scientists and engineers on...

    Published November 29th 2005 by Routledge
62. Social Contours of Risk

    Two volume Set

    By Roger E. Kasperson, Jeanne Kasperson

    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 1 and 2, two of the world's leading and most...

    Published March 31st 2005 by Routledge
63. Social Contours of Risk

    Volume II: Risk Analysis, Corporations and the Globalization of Risk

    By Roger E. Kasperson, Jeanne Kasperson

    Series: Earthscan Risk in Society

    The Social Contours of Risk Volume I: Publics, Risk Communication and the Social Amplification of Risk 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...

    Published March 31st 2005 by Routledge
64. Social Contours of Risk

    Volume I: Publics, Risk Communication and the Social

    By Roger E. Kasperson, Jeanne Kasperson

    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...

    Published March 31st 2005 by Routledge
65. Toward Safer Food

    Perspectives on Risk and Priority Setting

    By Sandra Hoffmann, Michael R. Taylor

    In 1998, a National Academy of Sciences panel called for an integrated, risk-based food safety system. This goal is widely embraced, but there has been little advance in thinking about how to integrate knowledge about food safety risks into a system- wide risk analysis framework. Such a framework...

    Published February 24th 2005 by Routledge
66. Facility Siting: Lofstedt

    Risk, Power and Identity in Land Use Planning

    Edited by Asa Boholm, Ragnar E. Lofstedt

    Series: Earthscan Risk in Society

    From dams to landfill sites, and power plants to radioactive waste repositories, the siting of facilities is a veritable minefield of conflicts involving industry, planners, authorities, NGOs and citizens. This penetrating volume examines risk, power and identity in contests over the siting of...

    Published September 30th 2004 by Routledge
67. Intellectual Property, Biogenetic Resources and Traditional Knowledge

    By Graham Dutfield

    Biogenetic resources - the critical biological and chemical materials that underpin so much of medicine, both modern and traditional, agriculture, and wider economic activity in so many fields - are at the centre of heated debate regarding their use, development, and ownership, and the issues of...

    Published August 31st 2004 by Routledge
68. The Bioengineered Forest

    Challenges for Science and Society

    Edited by Steven H. Strauss

    Bioengineering offers many opportunities for forestry. Bioengineered trees can produce more valuable wood, help reclaim contaminated land, improve the health of urban trees, and facilitate pest management. But the ecological risks are complex, and public views about the ethical acceptability of...

    Published August 10th 2004 by Routledge
69. True Warnings and False Alarms

    "Evaluating Fears about the Health Risks of Technology, 1948-1971"

    By Allan Mazur

    Given time, scientists reach consensus about the truth or falsity of a wide range of alleged hazards. Today, there is broad agreement that CFCs destroy stratospheric ozone. On the other hand, research does not support claims that electromagnetic fields from transmission lines cause a noticeable...

    Published April 20th 2004 by Routledge
70. Mapping Vulnerability

    Disasters, Development and People

    By Greg Bankoff, Dorothea Hilhorst, George Frerks

    Raging floods, massive storms and cataclysmic earthquakes: every year up to 340 million people are affected by these and other disasters, which cause loss of life and damage to personal property, agriculture, and infrastructure. So what can be done? The key to understanding the causes of disasters...

    Published December 31st 2003 by Routledge