Global Environmental Risk - Jeanne X. Kasperson, Roger E. Kasperson

Global Environmental Risk

Buch | Softcover
592 Seiten
2001
Earthscan Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-85383-801-9 (ISBN)
59,80 inkl. MwSt
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.
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.

Various chapters enlist different scales of analysis to explore the manifestation and causes of global environmental risks in all the diversity of their regional expression. Throughout, the editors and contributors accord prominence to the vulnerability of people and places to environmental degradation. Understanding vulnerability is a neglected key to assessing the nature of the risks and determining strategies for altering trajectories of threat. Global risk futures, the editors argue, are not intractable, and are still amenable to a risk-analysis enterprise that is democratic in principle, humanistic in concept, and geared to the realities that pertain to the particular societies, locales, and regions that will ultimately bear the risk.

Jeanne X. Kasperson, research Associate Professor and Research Librarian at the George Perkin's Marsh Institute, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, is a visiting scholar at the Stockholm Environment Institute. Roger E. Kasperson, after more than 30 years at Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, where he was University Professor (Government and Geography) and Director of the George Perkins Institute, has joined the Stockholm Environment Institute as its Executive Director.

Introduction * Part One: Characterizing Global Environmental Risks * Part Two: Vulnerability * Part Three: High-Risk Regions * Part Four: Global Environmental Futures * References * Contributors * Index

Reihe/Serie Earthscan Risk in Society
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 235 mm
Gewicht 876 g
Themenwelt Naturwissenschaften Biologie Ökologie / Naturschutz
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geologie
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geophysik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Spezielle Soziologien
Wirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft / Management Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 1-85383-801-2 / 1853838012
ISBN-13 978-1-85383-801-9 / 9781853838019
Zustand Neuware
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