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The Precautionary Principleby Indur M. Goklany
Cato Institute 2001; US$ 10.00Goklany here expands his chapter in Julian Morris' Rethinking Risk and the Precautionary Principle (Butterworth Heinemann, 2000). Drawing on his environmental work with government and industry, he explores how the precautionary principle could be used to solve various public health and environmental more...
Risks and Decisions for Conservation and Environmental Managementby Mark Burgman; Michael Usher; Denis Saunders; Andrew Dobson; Robert Peet; Paul Adam; H. J. B. Birks; Lena Gustafsson; Jeff McNeely; R. T. Paine; David Richardson
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 63.00A comprehensive guide to conducting environmental risk assessments for students, researchers and professionals in ecology, conservation and resource management. Coverage includes the philosophy of uncertainty and human objectivity in risky situations. Consideration is also given to how both subjective beliefs and technical analysis can be used to make informed decisions. more...
Comparative Risk Assessment and Environmental Decision Makingby Igor Linkov
Springer 2005; US$ 299.00Decision making in environmental projects is typically a complex and confusing process characterized by trade-offs between socio-political, environmental, and economic impacts. This title show that the use of comparative risk assessment can provide the scientific basis for environmental sound and cost-efficient policies. more...
Environmental Assessment in Practiceby Owen Harrop; Ashley Nixon
Routledge 1998; US$ 71.95An explanation of what constitutes good practice in applying environmental assessment as an environmental management tool in the ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT series. The text consists of a range of case studies, advice on using E.A., techniques for impact prediction and evaluation, and considers statement reviews and post-project analysis. more...
Energy to 2050: Scenarios for a Sustainable Futureby Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2004; US$ 75.00Analysing the interaction between energy and climate change mitigation issues requires the adoption of a long-term perspective - looking up to fifty years ahead. The future is, by definition unknown and cannot be predicted, particularly over longer periods. more...
A Practical Guide to Understanding, Managing, and Reviewing Environmental Risk Assessment Reportsby Sally L. Benjamin
CRC Press 2001; US$ 119.95This text provides team leaders and team members with a strategy for developing the elements of risk assessment into a readable and beneficial report. It explores a variety of techniques for creating accurate and useful reports. more...
Risk Assessment with Time to Event Modelsby Mark Crane
CRC Press 2001; US$ 119.95How can environmental regulators use information on 48-hour toxicity tests to predict the effects of a few minutes of pollution? Or, at the other extreme, what is the relevance of 96-hour toxicity data for organisms that may have been exposed to a pollutant for six months or more? Time to event methods are the key to answering these types of questions. Risk Assessment with Time to Event Models is the first comprehensive treatment of these methods in the context of ecological risk assessment. Leading experts from industry, academia, and government regulatory agencies explain how these methods can be used to extract more useful information from laboratory data than is present in simple summary statistics like 48-h LC50. more...
Environmental Contaminantsby Daniel Vallero
Elsevier 2004; US$ 111.00This book serves as a tool for environmental professionals to produce technically sound and reproducible scientific evidence. It identifies ways to clean up environmental problems in air, water, soil, sediment and living systems. Ethical issues, environmental management, and professionalism, and environmental economic problems are illustrated to assist the reader in understanding and applying quantitative analysis of environmental problems. Supplemental materials are available at the Companion Website http://www.elsevierdirect.com/companion.jsp?ISBN=9780127100579 * Real life solutions for practicing environmental professionals. * Example problems, sidebars, and case studies to illustrate ethical issues, environmental economic problems, and... more...
Environmental Risk Analysisby Ian Lerche; Evan K. Paleologos
McGraw-Hill 2001; US$ 89.95''This is probably the most comprehensive treatment of this subject that I have seen. The authors have presented an approach and concept that far surpasses anything currently available.'' - Jeffrey Vincoli, CSP, CHCM. *Examines problems such as transport, burial/storage, monitoring, and spillage - and tells how to overcome them. *Provides tables, graphs, and formulas for risk analysis and risk management strategies. *Explains complex statistical techniques in clear, basic terms more...
Introduction to Volcanic Seismologyby Vyacheslav M Zobin
Elsevier 2003; US$ 170.00Volcanic earthquakes represent the main and often the only instrument to forecast volcanic eruptions. This book is the first monograph about seismicity in volcanoes. It describes the main types of seismic signals in volcanoes, their nature and spatial and temporal distribution at different stages of eruptive activity. The book begins with an introduction to the history of volcanic seismology, discusses the models developed for the study of the origin of volcanic earthquakes of both a volcano-tectonic and eruption nature. The next three chapters give case histories of seismic activity associated with 34 eruptions in 17 basaltic, andesitic and dacitic volcanoes throughout the world from 1910 to 1998. Chapters 8 to 10 describe the general regularities... more...









