Natural Hazards & Risk Paperbacks

New and Published Books

1. Resolving Messy Policy Problems

   Handling Conflict in Environmental, Transport, Health and Ageing Policy

   By Steven Ney

   Series: The Earthscan Science in Society Series

   Our lives increasingly take place in ever more complex and interconnected networks that blur the boundaries we have traditionally used to define our social and political spaces. Accordingly, the policy problems that governments are called upon to deal with have become less clear-cut and far messier...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Transboundary Risk Governance

   By Rolf Lidskog, Linda Soneryd, Ylva Uggla

   Series: Earthscan Risk in Society

   Governing environmental risk, particularly large-scale transboundary risks associated with climate change and pollution, is one of the most pressing problems facing society . This book focuses on a set of key questions relating to environmental regulation: How are activities regulated in a...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
3. Science, Policy and Stakeholders in Water Management

   An Integrated Approach to River Basin Management

   Edited by Geoffrey Gooch, Per Stålnacke

   One of the major problems facing practitioners and scientists working with water management is how to integrate knowledge and experiences from scientific, policy and stakeholder perspectives. In this book this science-policy-stakeholder interface (SPSI) is examined both analytically and through the...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
4. Marginalized Reproduction

   Ethnicity, Infertility and Reproductive Technologies

   Edited by Lorraine Culley, Nicky Hudson, Floor van Rooij

   Series: The Earthscan Science in Society Series

   Worldwide, over 75 million people are involuntarily childless, a devastating experience for many with significant consequences for the social and psychological well-being of women in particular. Despite greater levels of infertility and strong cultural meanings attached to having children, little...

   Published May 31st 2013 by Routledge
5. Negotiating Environment and Science

   An Insider's View of International Agreements, from Driftnets to the Space Station

   By Richard J. Smith

   In this thought-provoking new book, career U.S. State Department negotiator Richard J. Smith offers readers unprecedented access to the details about some of the most complex and politically charged international agreements of the late and immediate post Cold War era. During his nine years as...

   Published March 1st 2012 by RFF Press