... such as the Lyon-Turin line between France and Italy, energy andenvironmental costs require a special attention and a careful analysis of the energy and material flows involved over the entire ... 10000 sheep and 500 goats The Susa Valley has a very ancient history, and many signs of its past wealth are still visible: archeological sites, Roman villas, churches and abbeys, castles and fortresses, ... developed alpine valleys from economicand infrastructural points of view It is crossed by two main roads through the passes Monginevro and Moncenisio Moreover, a motorway and an international railway...
... such as the Lyon-Turin line between France and Italy, energy andenvironmental costs require a special attention and a careful analysis of the energy and material flows involved over the entire ... 10000 sheep and 500 goats The Susa Valley has a very ancient history, and many signs of its past wealth are still visible: archeological sites, Roman villas, churches and abbeys, castles and fortresses, ... developed alpine valleys from economicand infrastructural points of view It is crossed by two main roads through the passes Monginevro and Moncenisio Moreover, a motorway and an international railway...
... conceptualization of the multiplicity and salience of major challenges to development and security, all of which require political and public awareness andeconomic resources for timely and efficient policy treatment ... In particular – and of no less significance than climate change – natural and humanmade hazards should be considered and contrasted ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS against climate change and its implications ... of risks, costs and benefits of handling these hazards using a multicriteria and systems approach towards the setting of policy priorities and resource sharing In addition to and developing from...
... learning and the social sources of adaptability, renewal and transformation; and (3) and understanding ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS of change and uncertainty as inherent in social-ecological systems ... et al (2003) attribute coping capacity and adaptive capacity as separate dimensions of resilience, Smit and Wandel (2006) lump them together To Smit and Wandel (2006), adaptive capacity is equivalent ... flooding, landslides and windstorms Extreme temperature events and earthquakes seem to follow the traditional thought more closely This has significant policy and practical implications for ENVIRONMENTAL...
... P., Pritchard, L and Young, O., 2006 Scale and cross-scale dynamics: governance andENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS information in a multilevel world Ecology and Society, 11(2) Coleman, F C and Williams, ... Geneva, Switzerland ISDR, 2009 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction: Risk andPoverty in a Changing Climate United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland Janssen, M A and Anderies, J M., ... construction Science and Public Policy, 30(4) 235 Helmer, M and Hilhorst, D J M., 2006 Natural disasters and climate change Disasters, 30(1) – Hogarth, R M and Kunreuther, H C., 1985 Ambiguity and insurance...
... variability in landfalls 3.2 Landfall rates and proportion Table shows for three different periods – 1900 – 2008, 1951–2008 and 1979–2008 – the frequency of annual landfalls in the first and second ... relationships of ENSO, NAO and AMO on landfalling storms and damage (e.g Elsner and Jagger, 2006; Jagger et al., 2008) Elsner and Jagger (2008) find a relationship between the solar cycle and US hurricane ... a long-term stationarity in landfall and damage statistics For instance, the 54-year period 1901–1954 saw USD592 billion in normalized damage from 101 landfalls and the 54-year period 1954–2008...
... ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS carbon trading and the wider social andeconomic consequences of the proposed targets, including the likely cost to the economy, the impact on competitiveness and fuel poverty, ... States hurricane landfalls and damages 199 Coughlin, K., Bellone, E., Laepple, T., Jewson, S and Nzerem, K., 2009 A relationship between all Atlantic hurricanes and those that make landfall in the ... doi:10.1038/nature04477 Landsea, C W., 2007 Counting Atlantic Tropical Cyclones back to 1900 EOS, 88 197 and 202 Lonfat, M., Boissonnade, A and Muir-Wood, R., 2007 Atlantic Basin, US and Caribbean landfall rates...
... Technology & Department of Economics andEconomic History, ` Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain; Faculty of Economics and Business Administration & Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije ... Netherlands Natural disasters have increased in frequency and severity during the last few decades, causing considerable economic damage and loss of life A combination of climate and socio -economic ... BOTZEN1, * AND J C J M VAN DEN BERGH2 Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ICREA, Barcelona, Spain; Institute of Environmental Science and Technology...
... namely low economic growth (RC) and high growth (GE) and corresponding changes in the ‘portfolio of properties at risk’ module of Figure were based on a land use model of the Netherlands (Janssen ... of climate and socio -economic change and estimating their influence on risk may be a useful first step in assessing future risk Statistical models can be used to assess how frequencies and severities ... change and socio -economic development on future natural disaster risk (IPCC, 2007) Considerable uncertainty and ambiguity is associated with both the frequency of a disaster occurring and the...
... Portland, Oregon Risk Analysis, 19(2) 205 – 216 Freeman, P K and Kunreuther, H., 2003 Managing environmental risk through insurance The International Yearbook of Environmentaland Resource Economics ... and Management, 13(4) 307 – 314 Rose, A., 2004b Economic principles, issues, and research priorities in hazard loss estimation Modelling Spatial andEconomic Impacts of Disasters, Y Okuyama and ... change, for example, because of soil erosion and landslides resulting from more frequent and severe rains and floods The surface mass balance of the Greenland Ice Sheet may turn negative at a global...
... wetlands which perform essential hydrological, biological and chemical functions and which support and maintain the productivity and health of the river systems A number of the Basin wetlands ... (The Australian, September 2008), and ‘Water dries up life on the land – Randall Crozier stands in the barren paddock, frowning at the drought-bleached desert sand’ (The Australian, 13 September ... Australia, irrigated land is just 0.6 per cent of total agricultural land and the proportion in the Basin is per cent, making up 65 per cent of Australia’s total irrigated agricultural land Furthermore,...
... Politics and History, 49(1) 61 –74 ¨ ¨ Brandstrom, A and Kuipers, S., 2003 From ‘normal incidents’ to ‘political crises’: understanding the selective politicization of policy failures Government and ... that is separated from the Southern Ocean by a narrow sand dune peninsula Lakes Alexandrina and Albert form the mouth of the Murray River and are comprised of fresh to saline waters The Coorong’s ... management and climate change was justified by the fact that Minister Penny Wong was the minister for climate change and water The Coorong Wetlands are one of the most important wetlands in Australia...
... mg/L Table Groundwater assets in 1998 Province 8S Gippsland 8S Gippsland 8S Gippsland 8S Gippsland 8S Gippsland 8S Gippsland 8S Gippsland Sustainable yield by salinity category(a) Fresh Marginal ... equipment; and other machinery and equipment Wood and paper product manufacturing (includes only log sawmilling and timber dressing; and paper and paper product manufacturing) Petroleum and chemical ... little regard for environmental matters The main aim of environmental accounting is to assess the sustainability of economic activities andeconomic growth by quantifying the depletion and degradation...
... implemented environmental -economic accounts for fisheries The first draft of the handbook was prepared by Mr Asgeir Danielsson (National Economic Institute, Iceland) and Mr Gerry Gravel (Statistics ... Integrated Environmentaland 10 Economic Accounting for the Fisheries (SEEAF) objectives: • • • • The SEEAF has several major Clarify the SNA and SEEA concepts and expand them for fisheries and related ... accounts fo r environmental protection and resource management is thus to identify and measure society’s response to environmental concerns through the supply and demand for environment goods and services,...
... criteria and safety standards Environmental aspects of the Shelter dismantlement and radioactive waste management • Safety andenvironmental assessments for individual facilities at and around ... Chernobyl nuclear power plant (NPP), on the health, environmental, and socio -economic consequences of the accident and better understanding and improved measures to deal with the impacts of the ... of Belarus, Ukraine and the Russian Federation Now, 20 years later, UN Agencies and representatives of the three countries have reviewed the health, environmentaland socio -economic consequences...
... Which Environmental Kuznets Curves? Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 43, 139-153 McConnell, K.E., 1997 Income and the demand for environmental quality Environment and Development Economics ... (1992), Panayotou (1993), Selden and Song (1994), and Holtz-Eakin and Selden (1995) Special issues of Ecological Economics (1995, 1998) and Environment and Development Economics (1996) have discussed ... Environmental Economics and Management 27, 147-162 Shafik, N., 1994 Economic development andenvironmental quality: An econometric analysis Oxford Economic Papers 46, 757-773 Shafik, N., Bandyopadhyay,...
... B Krueger and Jitka Maleckova,10 in which the socioeconomic and educational backgrounds of Palestinian suicide bombers were found to be quite diverse and random Moreover, the Krueger and Maleckova ... freedom and civil liberties in 192 countries and eighteen disputed territories since 1955 and produced a rating between one and seven and an overall designation of ‘‘free,’’ ‘‘partly free,’’ and ... fermentation tanks for dangerous and violent militants The low levels of economicand social development increase the appeal of political extremism and encourage political violence and instability However,...
... ago As environmental degradation andeconomicand social stresses mount, the more fragile governments are having difficulty managing them And as rapid population growth continues, cropland becomes ... dust and sand combined A scientific paper describes in vivid detail a 1993 sandstorm in Gansu Province in China's northwest This intense sand and dust storm reduced visibility to zero, and the ... are emaciated and over 40 percent of its children are chronically hungry and underweight Africa, too, is suffering heavily from unsustainable demands on its croplands and grasslands Rattan Lai...
... foreign investment, and foreign trade and exchange regimes Reforms and liberalisation have improved product, financial and labour markets and tax regimes Reversals have been few and far between The ... management Customer service and support 35 Operations and production processes 29 Strategy and business development 29 Marketing and sales activities 28 Human resource management and training 23 Corporate ... countries and Turkey Bulgaria and Romania are set to join in 2007 or 2008, and Croatia about two years later By 2020 the rest of the western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Macedonia and...
... official statistics, annual reports and semi-annual reports that were available in the organizations Institutionally, we collected and analysed the Environmental Law, Land Law and Fishery Law and ... several negative social andenvironmental problems, and recently trading competitive and anti-dumping issues One of the most serious environmental problems is the pressure of expanding shrimp farming ... liberalization and globalisation The environmentaland social impacts of shrimp farming are strongly linked to economic reforms, aquaculture promotion policies and the management of local government and...