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1	Natural Hazards and Disasters more books like this by Donald Hyndman, David Hyndman add to wishlist This text emphasises earth and atmospheric hazards that appear suddenly or rapidly without significant warning. The text further discusses ways to prevent or mitigate the damage caused by natural hazards, providing students with the latest scientific research relating to these topics. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $41.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Environmental Hazards: Assessing Risk and Reducing Disaster more books like this by Keith Smith add to wishlist The expanded fifth edition of "Environmental Hazards" provides a balanced overview of all the major rapid-onset events that threaten people and what they value in the 21st century. It integrates cutting-edge material from the physical and social sciences to demonstrate how natural and human systems interact to place communities of all sizes, and ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $41.99! \| SVS
3	Risk: A Practical Guide for Deciding What's Really Safe and What's Dangerous in more books like this by David Ropeik, George Gray add to wishlist In this indispensable and timely guide, experts from the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis provide essential tools for assessing the hazards readers face every day. Photos & illustrations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.93! \| first editions \| SVS
4	But is It True?: A Citizen's Guide to Environmental Health and Safety Issues more books like this by Aaron Wildavsky add to wishlist In the past there have been several major cases involving environmental health and public safety, including asbestos in schools, arsenic in the water system and Alar and PCBs in food. In such cases some quarters sounded the alarm, others said the public was safe, and both had science on their side. The questions then arise: whom are we to trust ... see all copies from $3.13! new only from $47.50! \| SVS
5	Precautionary Politics: Principle and Practice in Confronting Environmental Risk more books like this by Kerry H Whiteside add to wishlist This work is a study of the precautionary principle - its meaning, its rationale, its policy implications, and the controversies provoked by its use in environmental regulation. The precautionary principle - which holds that action to address threats of serious or irreversible environmental harm should be taken even in the absence of scientific ... see all copies from $5.59! new only from $15.54! \| SVS
6	Risks, Costs, and Lives Saved: Getting Better Results from Regulation more books like this by Robert W Hahn (Editor) add to wishlist The studies in this edited volume will use economic analysis of key issues of health and environmental risk management, showing how the policy process can be improved through the application of sound principles from economics and the natural sciences. see all copies from $4.86! new only from $4.86! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	Risk, Environment and Modernity: Towards a New Ecology more books like this by Scott Lash (Editor), Mr. Bronislaw Szerszynski (Editor), Professor Brian Wynne (Editor) add to wishlist This wide-ranging and accessible contribution to the study of risk, ecology and environment helps us to understand the politics of ecology and the place of social theory in making sense of environmental issues. The book provides insights into the complex dynamics of change in 'risk societies'. see all copies from $37.67! new only from $37.67! \| SVS
8	Handbook of Ecotoxicology Soil, Climatic, and Biological Constraints more books like this by David J Hoffman (Editor), Barnett A Rattner (Editor), G Allen Burton, Jr., Ph.D. (Editor) add to wishlist Intended for enivronmental toxicologists, environmental chemists and ecologists, this book provides information on the expanding field of ecotoxicology. Divided into four main sections, the text gives comprehensive coverage of the following areas: the methods of quantifying and measuring ecotoxicological effects, both in the field and under ... see all copies from $6.50! new only from $104.65!
9	International Environmental Risk Management more books like this by John Voorhees, Robert A Woellner, Robert A Voorhees add to wishlist International Environmental Risk Management: ISO 14000 and the Systems Approach gives readers an extensive analysis of practical applications of ISO 14000 and environmental compliance management systems. It offers a mixture of technical engineering advice, legal guidance, and common-sense business acumen. The authors explain the essentials of the ... see all copies from $22.94! new only from $24.08!
10	Deep Time: How Humanity Communicates Across Millennia more books like this by Gregory Benford add to wishlist A nonfiction book by physicist and science fiction author Benford, who here examines the many aspects of communication that must be taken into account when sending messages into the farthest reaches of space: everything from how we portray our civilization to what type of language we use to do it. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
11	Making Better Environmental Decisions: An Alternative to Risk Assessment more books like this by Mary O'Brien add to wishlist For the past quarter-century, government and the private sector have relied heavily on risk assessment for making decisions, allowing widespread environmental deterioration. In this book, Mary O'Brien recommends a simple yet profound shift to another decision-making technique: "alternatives assessment". Instead of asking how much of a hazardous ... see all copies from $2.81! new only from $14.00!
12 view cover	Handbook for Environmental Risk Decision Making: Values, Perceptions, & Ethics more books like this by C Richard Cothern (Editor) add to wishlist This handbook describes the broad aspects of risk management involving scientific policy judgment, uncertainty analysis, perception considerations, statistical insights, and strategic thinking. This book presents all the important concepts to enable the reader to 'see the big picture'. This ability is extremely important - it allows the decision ... see all copies from $26.97! new only from $26.97!
13 view cover	Chemicals as Intentional and Accidental Global Environmental Threats more books like this by Lubomir Simeonov (Editor), Elisabeta Chirila (Editor) add to wishlist The main aim of the book is to perform a critical assessment of the existing knowledge of chemical threats to environmental security with special reference to the prevention of chemical releases, rapid detection, risk assessment and effective management of emergency situations and long-term consequences of chemical releases. The technologies that ... see all copies from $4.11! new only from $4.11! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Risk Regulation at Risk: Restoring a Pragmatic Approach more books like this by Sidney A Shapiro, Robert L Glicksman add to wishlist In the 1960s and 1970s, Congress enacted a vast body of legislation to protect the environment and individual health and safety. Collectively, this legislation is known as "risk regulation" because it addresses the risk of harm that technology creates for individuals and the environment. In the last two decades, this legislation has come under ... see all copies from $16.84! new only from $25.95! \| first editions
15 view cover	Risk-Based Environmental Decisions more books like this by Douglas J Crawford-Brown, Gerald H Learn Jr (Editor) add to wishlist "Risk-Based Environmental Decision: Methods and Culture" presents the principles of human health risk analysis as they are applied in environmental decisions. It balances the discussion of scientific theory and methods, philosophical analysis, and applications in regulatory decisions. The material is directed towards risk analysts who must apply ... see all copies from $59.34! new only from $59.34! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Risks and Decisions for Conservation and Environmental Management more books like this by Mark Burgman add to wishlist This book outlines how to conduct a complete environmental risk assessment. The first part documents the psychology and philosophy of risk perception and assessment, introducing a taxonomy of uncertainty and the importance of context. It provides a critical examination of the use and abuse of expert judgement and goes on to outline approaches to ... see all copies from $37.69! new only from $50.00!
17 view cover	Living in Integrity: A Global Ethic to Restore a Fragmented Earth more books like this by Laura Westra add to wishlist 96.00 see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.95! \| SVS
18 view cover	Environmental Contaminants: Assessment and Control more books like this by Daniel Vallero add to wishlist This 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 ... see all copies from $45.73! new only from $53.26!
19 view cover	Fate of Pesticides in the Atmosphere - Implications for Environmental Risk Assessment more books like this by Harrie F G Van Dijk (Editor), W Addo J Van Pul (Editor), Pim de Voogt (Editor) add to wishlist This volume contains the proceedings of an international workshop on the issue of "Fate of pesticides in the atmosphere - implications for risk assessment" held in 1998 in The Netherlands. Topics include emission, dispersion, transport and transformations of pesticides in the atmosphere, and the ecotoxicological risks of pesticides in remote areas ... see all copies from $71.97! new only from $75.76! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Risk Assessment and Indoor Air Quality more books like this by Max Eisenberg, Elizabeth L Anderson, Roy E Albert add to wishlist With the recent tightening of air quality standards as mandated by the U.S. EPA, has come great pressure on regulatory bodies at all levels of government, along with the industries and groups affected by these standards, to better assess the hazards and risks that result from air pollutants. Risk Assessment and Indoor Air Quality carefully ties ... see all copies from $56.00! new only from $84.92!
21 view cover	Environmental Risks & Hazards more books like this by Susan L Cutter add to wishlist Appropriate for any course with significant content in Environmental Policy or Environmental Risk in geography, sociology, economics, or psychology. This collection of seminal works in the field of environmental hazards integrates all the social science perspectives -- hazards (geography), disasters (sociology), and risk (economics, psychology) - ... see all copies from $9.39! new only from $87.78!
22 view cover	Risk Management in a Hazardous Environment more books like this by Michael Bollig add to wishlist A research focus on hazards, risk perception and risk minimizing strategies is relatively new in the social and environmental sciences. This volume by a prominent scholar of East African societies is a powerful example of this growing interest. Earlier theory and research tended to describe social and economic systems in some form of equilibrium. ... see all copies from $54.85! new only from $54.85! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Environmental Risk Analysis more books like this by Ian Lerche, Evan Paleologos add to wishlist This book helps you simplify and expedite your risk analysis planning. "Far surpasses anything currently available." - Jeffrey Vincoli, CSP, CHCM. For the first time, those charged with analyzing environmental risk have a detailed roadmap to help them work more efficiently and effectively. "Environmental Risk Analysis" is an extraordinary toolkit, ... see all copies from $33.95! new only from $66.34!
24 view cover	Risk Science and Sustainability Science for Reduction of Risk and Sustainable Development of Society more books like this by Alik Ismail-Zadeh (Editor), Tom Beer (Editor) add to wishlist This volume contains peer-reviewed papers and case studies derived from invited papers. The contributions address two key problems: natural, technological and environmental risks, risk prevention and sustainable development; and science, risk and society. The papers provide an invaluable insight into, and archival record of the relationship ... see all copies from $47.93! new only from $52.09! \| SVS
25 view cover	Probabilistic Techniques in Exposure Assessment more books like this by Alison C Cullen, H Christopher Frey add to wishlist At this time when regulatory agencies are accepting and actively encouraging probabilistic approaches and the attribution of overall uncertainty among inputs to support Value of Information analyzes, a comprehensive sourcebook on methods for addressing variability and uncertainty in exposure analysis is sorely needed. This need is adroitly met in ... see all copies from $107.73! new only from $107.73! \| first editions \| SVS

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