Assessments of regional and global environmental risks : designing processes for the effective use of science in decisionmaking / edited by Alexander E. Farrell, Jill Jäger.

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Published: Washington, DC : Resources for the Future, c2006.
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245 0 0 |a Assessments of regional and global environmental risks :  |b designing processes for the effective use of science in decisionmaking /  |c edited by Alexander E. Farrell, Jill Jäger. 
260 |a Washington, DC :  |b Resources for the Future,  |c c2006. 
300 |a xii, 301 p. :  |b ill., maps ;  |c 24 cm. 
500 |a "This book emerges from the Global Environmental Assessment (GEA) Project."--Foreword. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 0 |t Foreword /  |r William Clark, Nancy Dickson, Jill Jäger, Sheila Jasanoff and James J. McCarthy --  |g 1.  |t Overview : understanding design choices /  |r Alexander E. Farrell, Jill Jäger and Stacy D. VanDeveer --  |g 2.  |t European politics with a scientific face : framing, asymmetrical participation, and capacity in LRTAP /  |r Stacy D. VanDeveer --  |g 3.  |t Dissent and trust in multilateral assessments : comparing LRTAP and OTAG /  |r Alexander E. Farrell and Terry J. Keating --  |g 4.  |t Applying assessment lessons to new challenges : from sulfur to POPs /  |r Noelle Eckley Selin --  |g 5.  |t Making climate change impacts meaningful : framing, methods, and process in coastal zone and agriculture assessments /  |r Marybeth Long Martello and Alastair Iles --  |g 6.  |t Dealing with uncertainty : how do you assess the impossible? /  |r Anthony Patt --  |g 7.  |t Limits to assessment : an example from regional abrupt climate change assessment in the United States /  |r David C. Lund --  |g 8.  |t Can assessments learn, and if so, how? : a study of the IPCC /  |r Bernd Siebenhüner --  |g 9.  |t The design and management of international scientific assessments : lessons from the climate regime /  |r Clark A. Miller --  |g 10.  |t Designing better environmental assessments for developing countries : lessons from the U.S. Country Studies Program /  |r Oladele A. Ogunseitan --  |g 11.  |t Grounds for hope : assessing technological options to manage ozone depletion /  |r Edward A. Parson --  |g 12.  |t Global hazards and catastrophic risk : assessments in the reinsurance industry /  |r Mojdeh Keykhah --  |g 13.  |t Making sustainability assessments more useful for institutional investors /  |r Bernd Kasemir, Andrea Süess and Raphael Schaub --  |g 14.  |t Improving the practice of environmental assessment /  |r Jill Jäger and Alexander E. Farrell. 
650 0 |a Environmental impact analysis. 
650 0 |a Decision making. 
650 0 |a Environmental policy. 
700 1 |a Farrell, Alexander E. 
700 1 |a Jäger, Jill. 
991 |a 2007-02-07 
992 |a Created by sico, 07/02/2007. Updated by juth, 20/03/2007. 
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