Even under the most optimistic scenarios, significant global climate change is now inevitable. While squarely confronting the scale of the risks we face, this book presents replicable sustainability successes and clear-cut policy recommendations that can improve the climate resi…
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This book shows how some of the most popular "risk analysis" methods are no better than astrology - they are not based on anything an actuary or statistician would recognize as sound, quantitative analysis. Businesses, governments, and the public have completely unrealistic perc…
Af forlagets omtale: Every day we are bombarded by television ads, public service announcements, and media reports warning of dire risks to our health and offering solutions to help us lower those risks. But many of these messages are incomplete, misleading, or exaggerated, leav…
Rapid urbanization is exacerbating risk and vulnerability world-wide, particularly in Africa in the face of climate change, but it also offers the opportunity for action on risk reduction. This book covers a diversity of disasters and hazards including: floods, earthquakes, fire…
This is the first comprehensive exploration of why human security is relevant to the Arctic and what achieving it can mean, covering the areas of health of the environment, identity of peoples, supply of traditional foods, community health, economic opportunities, and political …
