Transboundary Risk Management

ISBN-13: 9781853835377 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 352 str.

Joanne Linnerooth; Ragnar E. Lofstedt; Gunner Sjostedt

Opis

Environemtal hazards do not respect international boundaries and this volume considers the understanding and management of the transboundary risks involved. Key issues concerning public participation and the political significance of transboundary risks are examined and lessons on the management of risk are presented.

Spis treści

Preface * Foreword * Introduction * Swedish Aid and the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant * Genetically Modified Crops: What Transboundary Harmonization in Europe? * Transboundary Air Pollution: Lessons for Useful Analysis * Cultures of Uncertainty - Transboundary Risks and BSE in Europe A Transboundary Environmental Controversy on the Danube: The Gabcikovo-Nagymaros Dam System * Transboundary Risk Management in the South: A Nepelese Perspective on Himalayan Water Projects * Border Crossings * Public Participation Across Borders * International Negotiation and the Management of Transboundary Risks * Transboundary Environmental Risk Management in the New Millennium: Lessons for Theory and Practice * Address by Birgitta Dahl, Speaker of the Swedish Parliament * Index

O autorze

Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer is leader of the Risk, Modeling and Society Project at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, Austria. Ragnar E Löfstedt is reader in social geography at the Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey, UK. Gunnar Sj‘stedt is senior associate at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm.