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  • Corporate Management Of Health And Safety Hazards

    A Comparison Of Current Practice

    de Roger E. Kasperson ...
    This book provides one of the first systematic accounts of how corporations manage risk to workers and consumers. Careful analysis and interviewing in different corporations elicit a portrait of the myriad hazards that currently confront industry, the corporate programs and resources that have emerged since 1970 to respond to this challenge, and factors that have contributed to successes and ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • Social Contours of Risk

    Two volume Set

    de Roger E. Kasperson, Jeanne Kasperson ...
    Series series Earthscan Risk in Society
    We live in a 'risk society' where the identification, distribution and management of risks, from new technology, environmental factors or other sources are crucial to our individual and social existence. In The Social Contours of Risk, Volumes 1 and 2, two of the world's leading and most influential analysts of the social dimensions of risk bring together their most important contributions to this ... Leer más

    $265.99 USD

  • Social Contours of Risk

    Volume I: Publics, Risk Communication and the Social

    de Roger E. Kasperson, Jeanne Kasperson ...
    Series series Earthscan Risk in Society
    We live in a 'risk society' where the identification, distribution and management of risks, from new technology, environmental factors or other sources are crucial to our individual and social existence. In The Social Contours of Risk, Volumes I and II, two of the world's leading and most influential analysts of the social dimensions of risk bring together their most important contributions to ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

  • Structural Human Ecology

    New Essays in Risk, Energy, and Sustainability

    de Nadine Bratchatzek, Paul Ehrlich, Sylvia Hiller, Roger E. Kasperson, Sandra T. Marquart-Pyatt, Allan Mazur, Ortwin Renn, Dirk Scheer ...
    The desire to understand people’s influence on ecosystems has inspired scientific studies and analyses of the stress individuals and communities place on the environment, human well-being, and the tradeoffs between them. As an emerging discipline, Structural Human Ecology is devoted to unlocking the dynamic links between population, environment, social organization, and technology. The new field ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • One Hundred Centuries Of Solitude

    Redirecting America's High-level Nuclear Waste Policies

    de James Flynn, James Chalmers, Doug Easterling, Roger Kasperson, Howard Kunreuther ...
    Time is both the ally of high-level nuclear waste (HLNW) managers and the enemy. It is the ally because the radioactivity in elements and isotopes decreases with age, making the waste progressively less dangerous to human health and safety and the environment. This rate of radioactive decline varies, in some cases diminishing by half (the half life) in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, ... Leer más

    $59.99 USD

  • World Atlas of Natural Disaster Risk

    Edición de Peijun Shi, Roger Kasperson ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This is the first English-language atlas to systematically introduce the environment, hazard, vulnerability and risk mapping for 11 natural disasters, i.e. earthquake, volcano, landslide, flood, storm surge, sand-dust storm, tropical cyclone, heat wave, cold wave, drought and wildfire, and risk mapping for multi-hazard disaster in the world. The above 11 hazards are assessed and mapped at grid ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Risk Conundrums

    Solving Unsolvable Problems

    Edición de Roger E Kasperson ...
    Series series Earthscan Risk in Society
    A risk conundrum can be viewed as a risk that poses major issues in assessment, and whose management is not easily engaged. Such perplexing problems can either paralyze or badly delay risk analysis and directions for progression. Rather than simply focusing on the progress in risk analysis that has already been made, it is crucial to consider what has been learnt about these seemingly unmanageable ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Integrating Science and Policy

    Vulnerability and Resilience in Global Environmental Change

    Edición de Roger E Kasperson ...
    Series series The Earthscan Science in Society Series
    As progress towards a greater knowledge in sustainability science continues, the question of how better to integrate scientific progress with actual decisions made by practitioners remains paramount. This book aims to help close the gap between science and practice. Based on a two year collaborative project between Harvard and Clark Universities, the book takes as its focus the vulnerability and ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

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    An Integrated Perspective

    de Peter N. Nemetz ...
    It is vitally important for businesses to have a holistic understanding of the many issues surrounding and shaping sustainability, from competitors to government and political factors, to economics and ecological science. This integrated textbook for MBA and senior-level undergraduates offers a comprehensive overview of the issues of sustainability as they relate to business and influence ... Leer más

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  • The Ethics of Climate Governance

    Edición de Aaron Maltais, Catriona McKinnon ...
    The ethics of climate governance is of critical importance to current debates in climate justice, yet until now it has been largely neglected. This book explores the ethical dimensions of bringing the threat of global warming under effective political control. It addresses problems of domination and vulnerability in international climate negotiations, democratic legitimacy and equity in climate ... Leer más

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  • Our Renewable Future

    Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy

    de Richard Heinberg, David Fridley ...
    One of GreenBiz's Six Best Sustainability Books of 2016The next few decades will see a profound energy transformation throughout the world. By the end of the century (and perhaps sooner), we will shift from fossil fuel dependence to rely primarily on renewable sources like solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal power. Driven by the need to avert catastrophic climate change and by the depletion of ... Leer más

    $21.59 USD

  • Climate Uncertainty and Risk

    Rethinking Our Response

    de Judith Curry ...
    Series series Anthem Environment and Sustainability Initiative
    World leaders have made a forceful statement that climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the 21st century. However, little progress has been made in implementing policies to address climate change. In Climate Uncertainty and Risk, eminent climate scientist Judith Curry shows how we can break this gridlock. This book helps us rethink the climate change problem, the risks we are ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD