Environmental Security and Environmental Management: The Role of Risk Assessment - Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workhop on The Role of Risk Assessment in Environmental Security and Emergency Preparedness in the Mediterranean Region, held in Eilat, Israel, April 15-18, 2004 (Hardcover, 2006 ed.)

The concept of "environmental security" has emerged as one basis for understanding international conflicts. This phrase can mean a variety of things. It can signify security issues stemming from environmental concerns or conflicting needs, or it can mean that the environment is treated as a resource for the long term, and the question is what should be done today to preserve the quality of the environment in the future. In the same way that energy security is about ensuring access to energy for the long run, it can also mean that pressing environmental concerns create a situation where different countries and communities are forced to collaboratively design a unified response, even if cooperation is not generally in the logic of their relations. Over the last several years, the authors of this book and their colleagues have tried to demonstrate the power of risk assessment and decision analysis as valuable tools that decision makers should use for a broad range of environmental problems, including environmental security. Risk analysis is almost more a state of mind or a way of looking at problems than it is a kind of algorithm or a set of recipes. It projects a kind of rationality on problems and forces a certain degree of quantitative rigor, as opposed to the all too common tendency of making environmental recommendations based on anecdotal evidence.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Nato Security through Science Series C:
Release date:	November 2005
First published:	2006
Editors:	Benoit Morel • Igor Linkov
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 20mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	325
Edition:	2006 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4020-3891-4
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > General
LSN:	1-4020-3891-7
Barcode:	9781402038914

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