Environmental Crises (eBook)

Contents 5
Introduction 6
Climate Change Scenarios – Purpose and Construction 9
1 Introduction 9
2 Emission Scenarios 13
3 Scenarios of Anthropogenic Global Climate Change 15
4 Regional Anthropogenic Climate Change 17
Literature 18
Economic Scenarios for Global Change 20
1 Introduction 20
2 What are Economic Scenarios? 20
3 Predictability, Resolution and Scale 22
4 How to Build a Scenario? 25
5 Economic Growth 25
6 Emissions 27
7 Vulnerability 29
8 Empirical Validity 32
9 Conclusion 35
References 36
Climate Change: Regulating the Unknown 39
1 Introduction 39
2 Global Warming Potentials 40
3 Multi-Gas Emission Reduction 42
4 Ancillary Bene.ts 43
5 The Social Cost of Carbon 44
6 Europe’s Long-Term Climate Policy Target 46
7 Conclusion 47
References 48
Curbing the Omnipresence of Lead in the European Environment Since the 1970s – a Successful Example of E . cient Environmental Policy 54
1 Introduction 54
2 Gasoline-Lead Regulations in Europe 55
3 Reconstructing Regional Pathways of Lead 56
4 Some Environmental and Economical Impacts 60
5 Conclusion and Outlook 62
References 64
Mission Impossible? Media Coverage of Scienti . c Findings 66
1 Introduction 66
2 Journalism and Science: Di.erences and Similarities in Aims and Functions of two Systems 67
3 The Way of Telling a Story: Issue Life-cycles 71
4 The Way of Telling the Lead Story 76
5 Conclusion 78
6 References 79
Fishing for Sustainable Policies – Political Causes of Over- . shing and Solutions for Sustainable Fisheries 83
1 State of World Fisheries 83
2 Short Introduction to Fisheries Management 85
3 Fisheries in the European Union (EU) – Status and Problems 88
4 The Solution: Sustainable Fisheries 94
5 Conclusion 99
Literature 99
Oil Pollution in Marine Ecosystems – Policy, Fate, E . ects and Response 101
1 Introduction 101
2 Fate and E.ect of Oil Pollution in the Sea 106
3 Chemical Oil-spill Countermeasures at Sea – Dispersants 110
4 Oil Spill Response Management Supported by Models and Integrated Software Systems 115
5 Long Term Simulations of Environmental Conditions as a Basis for Oil Spill Risk Assessments 123
6 The Role of the European Maritime Safety Agency in Marine Pollution Response 126
Literature 136
Index 140