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Revealing The Vulnerability Of Urban Communities To Flood Hazard In Tanzania: A Case Of The Dar Es Salaam City Ecosystem, Herbert Hambati, Greg Gaston
Revealing The Vulnerability Of Urban Communities To Flood Hazard In Tanzania: A Case Of The Dar Es Salaam City Ecosystem, Herbert Hambati, Greg Gaston
International Journal of Geospatial and Environmental Research
Losses from environmental flood hazards have escalated in recent decades, prompting a reorientation of emergency management systems away from simple post event response. There is a noticeable change in policy, with more emphasis on loss reduction through mitigation, preparedness, and recovery projects and programs. Effective mitigation of losses from flood hazards requires hazard identification, an assessment of all the hazards likely to affect a given place and people, and risk-reduction measures that are compatible across a multitude of hazards. The degree to which populations are vulnerable to flood hazards, however, is not solely dependent upon proximity to the source of …
Environmental Risk Analysis: Problems And Perspectives In Different Countries, Bhola Ram Gurjar, Manju Mohan
Environmental Risk Analysis: Problems And Perspectives In Different Countries, Bhola Ram Gurjar, Manju Mohan
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
The authors discuss various industrial accidents, which have led to growing concerns about the potential hazards and risks involved in chemical process industries.
A Model Of Organizational Responsiveness To Stakeholders, Caron Chess
A Model Of Organizational Responsiveness To Stakeholders, Caron Chess
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Dr. Chess explores the relationship between risk management and risk communication and its affect on an organization/stakeholder relationship.
Basic Science And Risk Communication: A Dialogue-Based Study, Char J. Word, Anna K. Harding, Gordon R. Bilyard, James R. Weber
Basic Science And Risk Communication: A Dialogue-Based Study, Char J. Word, Anna K. Harding, Gordon R. Bilyard, James R. Weber
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
The authors use ethnographic analysis of a focus group discussion between scientists and laypersons to study information exchange in risk communication.
Expert And Lay Mental Models Of Ecosystems: Inferences For Risk Communication, Jeffrey K. Lazo, Jason Kinnell, Toby Bussa, Ann Fisher, Nathan Collamer
Expert And Lay Mental Models Of Ecosystems: Inferences For Risk Communication, Jeffrey K. Lazo, Jason Kinnell, Toby Bussa, Ann Fisher, Nathan Collamer
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
The authors evaluate a mental modeling approach to studying differences between lay and expert comprehension of ecosystems.
Designing An Analytic Deliberative Process For Environmental Health Policy Making In The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex, Seth Tuler, Thomas Webler
Designing An Analytic Deliberative Process For Environmental Health Policy Making In The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex, Seth Tuler, Thomas Webler
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Using a National Research Council Report as a centerpiece, Drs. Tuler and Webler evaluate the effectiveness of a conceptual approach to risk policy-making.
Involving Others: Towards An Ethical Concept Of Risk, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter
Involving Others: Towards An Ethical Concept Of Risk, Christoph Rehmann-Sutter
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Dr. Rehman-Sutter argues for a juridical concept of risk as it relates to an ethic of care. He also contrasts his view with traditional economic risk analysis.
Strategy For Cost-Effective Reduction Of The Sum Of Health Risk Estimates For Exposures To Mixtures Of Toxic Substances, David W. Gaylor, James J. Chen
Strategy For Cost-Effective Reduction Of The Sum Of Health Risk Estimates For Exposures To Mixtures Of Toxic Substances, David W. Gaylor, James J. Chen
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
The authors argue that a minimization approach can provide guidance for effective use of funds to reduce the sum of estimated risks or the upper limit of the sum of risk estimates for mixtures of chemicals.
Risk Is More Than Just A Number, Wim F. Passchier, Wim C. Reij
Risk Is More Than Just A Number, Wim F. Passchier, Wim C. Reij
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Summarizes efforts by the Health Council of the Netherlands to develop a national risk management approach.
The Normative Nature Of Risk Assessment: Features And Possibilities, Carl F. Cranor
The Normative Nature Of Risk Assessment: Features And Possibilities, Carl F. Cranor
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Dr. Cranor argues that appreciating risk assessment to be permeated with normative presuppositions, in contrast with being primarily objective, opens up unforeseen possibilities for risk management.
Environmental Decision Making And Risk Management For Groundwater Systems, Janet D. Gough
Environmental Decision Making And Risk Management For Groundwater Systems, Janet D. Gough
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
With an eye to a specific application in New Zealand, Ms. Gough explores the use of risk management approaches for environmental decision making at strategic, policy, management and operational levels.
The Decision To Reactivate A First-Generation Soviet Nuclear Power Plant: Conceptual And Decision-Analytic Frameworks, John M. Gleason
The Decision To Reactivate A First-Generation Soviet Nuclear Power Plant: Conceptual And Decision-Analytic Frameworks, John M. Gleason
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Explores a variety of factors that led to reopening the Armenian Metsamor facility notwithstanding general agreement that this is unwarranted technologically.
Academy Recommendations On The Proposed Yucca Mountain Waste Repository: Overview And Criticisms, Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette
Academy Recommendations On The Proposed Yucca Mountain Waste Repository: Overview And Criticisms, Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Offers alternative criticism of the NAS report.
Fairness And Siting: Introduction To A Symposium, Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, Ragnar E. Löfstedt
Fairness And Siting: Introduction To A Symposium, Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer, Ragnar E. Löfstedt
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
The symposium editors note that, while there is no recipe for successful siting, some of the critical ingredients are identified here.
Predicting Future Sources Of Mass Toxic Tort Litigation, Jeffrey A. Foran, Bernard D. Goldstein, John A. Moore, Paul Slovic
Predicting Future Sources Of Mass Toxic Tort Litigation, Jeffrey A. Foran, Bernard D. Goldstein, John A. Moore, Paul Slovic
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
The authors describe the efforts of an expert working group to identify potential sources, over the next five to ten years, of future mass litigation and report on the group's consensus conclusions.
Trace Substances, Science And Law: Perspectives From The Social Sciences, James F. Short Jr.
Trace Substances, Science And Law: Perspectives From The Social Sciences, James F. Short Jr.
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Using advances in analytical technology as a point of departure, Dr. Short reviews what social science research reveals about perceptions, decision making processes and behaviors of organizations and individuals who try to cope with risk and uncertainty.
The Media, Risk Assessment And Numbers: They Don't Add Up, Sharon M. Friedman
The Media, Risk Assessment And Numbers: They Don't Add Up, Sharon M. Friedman
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Professor Friedman argues that, for risks to be reported accurately, journalism educators must help their students understand science, numbers and statistics.
Mass Media As An Information Channel And Public Arena, Hans Peter Peters
Mass Media As An Information Channel And Public Arena, Hans Peter Peters
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Professor Peters argues that several functions of mass media compete and that attempts to improve risk coverage must avoid optimizing one at the expense of others.
Book Review, Gianna Julian-Arnold
Book Review, Gianna Julian-Arnold
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
Review of the book: ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS: PUBLIC COSTS, PRIVATE REWARDS. (Michael S. Greve & Fred L. Smith, Jr. eds., Praeger 1992) [209 pp.] Acknowledgements, biographical information, figures, foreword by James Q. Wilson, index, notes, selected bibliography, tables. LC 91-44009, ISBN 0-275- 94238-4. [Paper $19.95, cloth $45.00. One Madison Avenue, New York N.Y. 10010.]