Global Environmental Risk

Table of contents

• Title Page *
• Contents vii
• Figures and Tables x
• Acknowledgements xvi
• 1 - Introduction: Global Environmental Risk and Society 1
• Note *
• Part One - Characterizing Global Environmental Risks 49
• Editors' Introduction 51
• 2 - International Comparisons of Environmental Hazards 55
• Note *
• Appendix A - The Descriptors 95
• Note *
• Appendix B - Environmental Problems 111
• Appendix C - Tips on Applying the Method 128
• Appendix D - Data from Case Studies; India, Kenya, the Netherlands, and the United States 131
• Appendix E - Principal-Component Analysis 140
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• 3 - The Risk Transition and Developing Countries 148
• 4 - Global Risk, Uncertainty, and Ignorance 173
• Part Two - Vulnerability 195
• Editors' Introduction 197
• 5 - Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change 201
• 6 - Vulnerability to Global Environmental Change in Natural Ecosystems and Rural Areas: a Question of Latitude? 217
• 7 - Vulnerability, Equity, and Global Environmental Change 247
• Part Three - High-Risk Regions 273
• Editors' Introduction 275
• 8 - Trajectories of Threat: Assessing Environmental Criticality in Nine Regions 280
• 9 - Global Change and Environmental Risks in Mountain Ecosystems 306
• 10 - Vulnerability to Drought and Climate Change in Mexico 343
• 11 - Sea-Level Rise and the Bangladesh and Nile Deltas 353
• Notes *
• 12 - Sea-Level Rise and the North Sea 373
• 13 - Sea-Level Rise and the Sea of Japan 397
• Part Four - Global Environmental Futures 423
• Editors' Introduction 425
• 14 - Risk and Imagining Alternative Futures 429
• 15 - Exploring a Sustainable Future for Canada 451
• 16 - Social Visions of Future Sustainable Societies 467
• Appendix - A Summary of First-Generation Global Models 502
• References 506
• Contributors 563
• Index 566