Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks - Chapter 15 Table of Contents

Volume 2: A Functional Analysis of Social Responses to Climate Change, Ozone Depletion, and Acid Rain

The Social Learning Group
The MIT Press, 2001

Part III: Studies of Management Functions

Jill Jäger with Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Nancy M. Dickson, Adam Fenech, Edward A. Parson, Vassily Sokolov, Ferenc L. Tóth, Claire Waterton, Jeroen van der Sluijs, and Josee van Eijndhoven

15.1	Introduction
15.2	Risk Assessment Stories
15.2.1	Introduction
15.2.2	The Introduction of Non Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Gases into the Climate Change Debate
15.2.3	The Carbon Dioxide Doubling Temperature
15.2.4	Sea Level Rise as a Result of the Melting of the West Antarctic
15.2.5	Unanticipated Effects of Risk Assessments: The CIAP
15.2.6	Appreciation of the Urgency of the Stratospheric Ozone Depletion Problem
15.2.7	The Impacts of Stratospheric Ozone Depletion on Human Health
15.2.8	The Introduction of Non Sulfur Dioxide Gases in the Acidification Debate
15.2.9	The Urgency of the Acid Deposition Problem Reflected in the Assessments of Cumulative Effects
15.2.10	The Transportation of Acid Pollutants
15.2.11	The Introduction of the Concept of Multiple Stress in the Acid Deposition Debate
15.3	Patterns across Time
15.3.1	Introduction
15.3.2	Across Issues
15.3.3	Similarities and Differences between Issues
15.3.4	Differences between Actors
15.3.5	Differences between Arenas
15.4	Is there Evidence that Risk Assessments “Improve” with Time?
15.4.1	Acid Deposition
15.4.2	Stratospheric Ozone Depletion
15.4.3	Climate Change
15.5	Main Findings and Links to Other Functions
Appendix 15A	Acronyms Notes References