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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jl mumpower”
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  • LLRW Disposal Facility Siting

    Successes and Failures in Six Countries

    by J.L. Mumpower, A. Vari, Patricia Reagan-Cirincione ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Planning for the management of nuclear wastes -- whatever their level of radioactivity -- is one of the most important environmental problems for all societies that produce utility, industrial, medical, or other radioactive waste products. Attemps to site low-level radioactive waste disposal facilities in Western industrial societies, however, have repeatedly engendered conflicts between ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Benefits Assessment

    The State of the Art

    Edited by J.D. Bentkover, V.T. Covello, J.L. Mumpower ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    In recent years there has been substantial interest in benefits assessment methods, especially as these methods are used to assess health, safety, and environmental issues. At least part of this interest can be traced to Executive Order 12291, issued by President Ronald Reagan in 1981. This Executive Order requires Federal agencies to perform benefits assessments of pro posed major regulations and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Risk Evaluation and Management

    Edited by V.T. Covello, Joshua Menkes, J.L. Mumpower ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Public attention has focused in recent years on an array of technological risks to health, safety, and the environment. At the same time, responsibilities for technological risk as sessment, evaluation, and management have grown in both the public and private sectors because of a perceived need to anticipate, prevent, or reduce the risks inherent in modem society. In attempting to meet these ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    The Gulf Oil Debacle and Our Energy Dilemma

    by Joseph A. Tainter, Tadeusz W. Patzek ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    For more than a century, oil has been the engine of growth for a society that delivers an unprecedented standard of living to many. We now take for granted that economic growth is good, necessary, and even inevitable, but also feel a sense of unease about the simultaneous growth of complexity in the processes and institutions that generate and manage that growth. As societies grow more complex ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Sustainability Performance Evaluation System in Government

    A Balanced Scorecard Approach Towards Sustainable Development

    by Nan Chai ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Progressing towards sustainable development raises important challenges to conducting performance evaluations in governments because there are neither generally accepted methods nor specific standards to be met at present. Sustainability Performance Evaluation System in Government, makes a conceptual contribution to public sustainability performance evaluation and develops a set of framework ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Adaptive Water Management

    Concepts, Principles and Applications for Sustainable Development

    by Farideh Delavari Edalat, M. Reza Abdi ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book explores a new framework of Adaptive Water Management (AWM) for evaluating existing approaches in urban water management. It highlights the need to adopt multidisciplinary strategies in water management while providing an in-depth understanding of institutional interactions amongst different water related sectors.The key characteristics of AWM i.e. polycentric governance, organisational ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Decision Science and Social Risk Management

    A Comparative Evaluation of Cost-Benefit Analysis, Decision Analysis, and Other Formal Decision-Aiding Approaches

    by M.W Merkhofer ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Economists, decision analysts, management scientists, and others have long argued that government should take a more scientific approach to decision making. Pointing to various theories for prescribing and rational izing choices, they have maintained that social goals could be achieved more effectively and at lower costs if government decisions were routinely subjected to analysis. Now, government ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Environment and Democratic Transition:

    Policy and Politics in Central and Eastern Europe

    Edited by A. Vari, Pal Tamas ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Recent democratization and the accompanied liberalization of the media in Central and Eastern Europe has brought the devastating environmental impacts of the intensive and careless industrialization of the last 40 years to the surface. Less is known, however, about the social, political and institutional background of environmental risk management which led to the present situation, as well as ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Socially Responsible Investment

    A Multi-Criteria Decision Making Approach

    Edited by Enrique Ballestero, Blanca Pérez-Gladish, Ana Garcia-Bernabeu ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book integrates socially responsible investment into modern portfolio theory from a multi-criteria perspective. Socially responsible investment is a “new deal” championed by the institutional investment and bank sectors, agents that influence mutual funds and other collective investment schemes and which fear that financial strategies without ethical constraints can harm sustainable growth ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Environmentally Responsible Supply Chains

    Edited by Atalay Atasu ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    This book highlights what it takes to be successful in identifying and executing environmental responsibility from an operational perspective. It provides cutting-edge research from globally recognized field experts. It is a useful resource for practitioners to explore why and how firms engage in environmentally responsible operations, but also a valuable resource for academics as an introductory ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Smart Markets for Water Resources

    A Manual for Implementation

    by Mark W. Milke, John F. Raffensperger ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Why is trade in wholesale water so rare, when markets can actively trade bread, tractors, and electricity? This book shows that water markets fail because of high transaction costs, resulting in inefficient allocations and unpredictable environmental effects. To overcome these obstacles, this book proposes a trading mechanism called a smart market. A smart market is an auction cleared with ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • Effects of Deregulation on Safety

    Implications Drawn from the Aviation, Rail, and United Kingdom Nuclear Power Industries

    by Vicki Bier, James Joosten, David Glyer, Jennifer Tracey, Michael Welsh ...
    Series series Business and Management (R0)
    Effects of Deregulation on Safety provides a comprehensive overview of the safety experiences of these three case study industries and their implications for the U.S. nuclear power industry. The treatment of the subject is not highly technical, and hence is accessible to a wide range of readers with interests in the subject matter. The book draws on literature from roughly 250 references, ranging ... Read more

    $89.09 USD