Environmental Risk Planning and Management

Edited by Simon Gerrard, R. K. Turner and Ian Bateman

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The assessment and management of risks to human health and the environment has become a topic of increasing importance and presents one of the major challenges to modern society. This comprehensive volume draws together key papers from a range of different perspectives and offers the reader an important insight into the basic principles of environmental risk management. Topics include the background to environmental risk, human health and ecological risk assessment, risk perception and communication, strategic issues in corporate environmental risk and environmental risk and siting hazardous facilities.

Keywords: Business and Management; Economics and Finance; Environment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
ISBN: 9781840642186
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