Environmental Responses

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Environmental understandings and actions are complex. This work includes both our responses to environmental change and responses of environments induced by human actions. It also covers technical measures and tools of evaluation, environmental policy and regulation, and environmental politics.

Omtale fra Nielsen Bookdata
Environmental understandings and actions are complex. "Environmental Responses" include both our responses to environmental change and responses of environments induced by human actions, and cover technical measures and tools of evaluation, environmental policy and regulation, and environmental politics.

Review - Nielsen Bookdata
"...very inviting and user friendly...primarily for Open University students...highly attractive to a far wider readership..." (RoSPA Occupational Safety & Health Jnl, 1 March 2004) "...an informative, richly illustrated and accessible reader, which develops a number of environmental themes..." (Geography, 2004)

Table of contents
Series Preface.Introduction (Andrew Blowers and Steve Hinchliffe).Chapter One: Environmental responses: radioactive risks and uncertainty (Steve Hinchliffe, Andrew Blowers).Chapter Two: Design for urban environments (Rod Barratt).Chapter Three: Economic Analysis and environmental responses (Paul Anand).Chapter Four: Environmental politics: society's capacity for political response (Pieter Leroy, Karin Verhagen).Chapter Five: Climate change: global responses under uncertainty (Stephen Peake).Chapter Six: Sustainable environmental futures: opportunities and constraints (Steve Hinchliffe, Andrew Blowers, Joanna Freeland).Epilogue: environmental futures (Andrew Blowers, Steve Hinchliffe).Acknowledgements.Index.