Environmental Crises (eBook)

Richard Tol (Herausgeber)

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2007 | 2008
V, 142 Seiten
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-540-75896-9 (ISBN)

Infos

This book studies the art and science of analyzing, assessing and anticipating environmental change. Among the issues considered are the observational evidence, the changing public perception of the environment, functions of the environment and its use. Coverage also reviews a series of four prominent cases, namely climate change, the emissions of gasoline lead into the atmosphere and water bodies, fisheries policies and the management of marine oil pollution.

Inhalt

Contents 5
Introduction 6
Climate Change Scenarios – Purpose and Construction 9
1 Introduction 9
2 Emission Scenarios 13
3 Scenarios of Anthropogenic Global Climate Change 15
4 Regional Anthropogenic Climate Change 17
Literature 18
Economic Scenarios for Global Change 20
1 Introduction 20
2 What are Economic Scenarios? 20
3 Predictability, Resolution and Scale 22
4 How to Build a Scenario? 25
5 Economic Growth 25
6 Emissions 27
7 Vulnerability 29
8 Empirical Validity 32
9 Conclusion 35
References 36
Climate Change: Regulating the Unknown 39
1 Introduction 39
2 Global Warming Potentials 40
3 Multi-Gas Emission Reduction 42
4 Ancillary Bene.ts 43
5 The Social Cost of Carbon 44
6 Europe’s Long-Term Climate Policy Target 46
7 Conclusion 47
References 48
Curbing the Omnipresence of Lead in the European Environment Since the 1970s – a Successful Example of E . cient Environmental Policy 54
1 Introduction 54
2 Gasoline-Lead Regulations in Europe 55
3 Reconstructing Regional Pathways of Lead 56
4 Some Environmental and Economical Impacts 60
5 Conclusion and Outlook 62
References 64
Mission Impossible? Media Coverage of Scienti . c Findings 66
1 Introduction 66
2 Journalism and Science: Di.erences and Similarities in Aims and Functions of two Systems 67
3 The Way of Telling a Story: Issue Life-cycles 71
4 The Way of Telling the Lead Story 76
5 Conclusion 78
6 References 79
Fishing for Sustainable Policies – Political Causes of Over- . shing and Solutions for Sustainable Fisheries 83
1 State of World Fisheries 83
2 Short Introduction to Fisheries Management 85
3 Fisheries in the European Union (EU) – Status and Problems 88
4 The Solution: Sustainable Fisheries 94
5 Conclusion 99
Literature 99
Oil Pollution in Marine Ecosystems – Policy, Fate, E . ects and Response 101
1 Introduction 101
2 Fate and E.ect of Oil Pollution in the Sea 106
3 Chemical Oil-spill Countermeasures at Sea – Dispersants 110
4 Oil Spill Response Management Supported by Models and Integrated Software Systems 115
5 Long Term Simulations of Environmental Conditions as a Basis for Oil Spill Risk Assessments 123
6 The Role of the European Maritime Safety Agency in Marine Pollution Response 126
Literature 136
Index 140

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.12.2007
• Reihe/Serie: GKSS School of Environmental Research
• Reihe/Serie: GKSS School of Environmental Research
• Zusatzinfo: V, 142 p.
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Umweltrecht
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: Atmosphere • Climate • climate change • Climate Change Management • ecosystem • Ecosystems • Emission • Emissions • Environment • Environmental change • environmental crises • Environmental Policy • Europe • Industrial Pollution Prevention • oil in seawater • pollution
• ISBN-10: 3-540-75896-8 / 3540758968
• ISBN-13: 978-3-540-75896-9 / 9783540758969