Global Environmental Risk

International Comparisons Of Environmental Hazards / Vicki Norberg-bohm .. [and Others] -- The Risk Transition And Developing Countries / Kirk R. Smith -- Global Risk, Uncertainty, And Ignorance / Silvio 0. Funtowicz And Jerome R. Ravetz -- Vulnerability To Global Environmental Change / Diana M. Liverman -- Vulnerability To Global Environmental Change In Natural Ecosystems And Rural Areas : A Question Of Latitude? / Exequiel Ezcurra .. [et Al.] -- Vulnerability, Equity, And Global Environmental Change / Roger E. Kasperson, Jeanne X. Kasperson, And Kirstin Dow -- Trajectories Of Threat : Assessing Environmental Criticality In Nine Regions / Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson, And B.l. Turner, Ii -- Global Change And Environmental Risks In Mountain Ecosystems / N.s. Jodha -- Vulnerability To Drought And Climate Change In Mexico / Diana M. Liverman -- Sea-level Rise And The Bangladesh And Nile Deltas / James M. Broadus -- Sea-level Rise And The North Sea / Timothy O'riordan -- Sea-level Rise And The Sea Of Japan / Saburo Ikeda And Masaaki Kataoka -- Risk And Imagining Alternative Futures / Timothy O'riordan And Peter Timmerman -- Exploring A Sustainable Future For Canada / John B. Robinson -- Social Visions Of Future Sustainable Societies / Patricia Benjamin .. [et Al.]. Edited By Jeanne X. Kasperson And Roger Kasperson. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 506-562) And Index. Annotation Despite international initiatives such as the Earth Summit in 1992 and ongoing efforts to implement the Kyoto Protocol, human activities continue to register a destructive toll on the planetary environment. At root, research on global environmental risk seeks new pathways for reversing unsustainable trends, curtailing ongoing destructive activities, and creating a life-sustaining planet. This book takes stock of the distinctive challenges posed by global environmental risks, the capacity of knowledge systems to identify and characterize such risks, and the competence of human society to manage the unprecedented complexity. Particular attention trains on engaging, in ways conducive to enhancing social learning and adaptation, the large uncertainties inherent in these risks This volume takes stock of the distinctive challenges posed by global environmental risks, the capacity of knowledge systems to identify and characterize such risks and the competence of human society to manage the unprecedented complexity