Environmental Risk Planning and Management (Managing the Environment for Sustainable Development series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1840642181 ISBN 13: 9781840642186

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

The assessment and management of risks to human health and the environment has become a topic of increasing importance and presents one of the major challenges to modern society. This comprehensive volume draws together key papers from a range of different perspectives and offers the reader an important insight into the basic principles of environmental risk management.

Topics include the background to environmental risk, human health and ecological risk assessment, risk perception and communication, strategic issues in corporate environmental risk and environmental risk and siting hazardous facilities.

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About the Author

Edited by Simon Gerrard, University of Nottingham, R. Kerry Turner, Professor of Environmental Sciences, School of Environmental Sciences and Director, Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) and the Programme in Environmental Decision Making (PEDM), University of East Anglia and Ian J. Bateman, OBE, Professor of Environmental Economics, Director of the Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute (LEEP), University of Exeter, UK

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1840642181
• ISBN 13: 9781840642186
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 640
• Editor: Gerrard Simon, Turner R. K., Bateman Ian J.