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 Learning to Manage Global Environmental Risks

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

Chapter 16
Monitoring in the Management 
of Global Environmental Risks

Jill Jäger with Nancy M. Dickson, Adam Fenech, Peter M. Haas, Edward A. Parson, Vassily Sokolov, Ferenc L. Tóth, Jeroen van der Sluijs, and Claire Waterton

16.1 Introduction
16.2 Stories
16.2.1 Introduction
16.2.2 Gas in Ice Bubbles
16.2.3 Measuring the Atmospheric Concentration of Carbon Dioxide
16.2.4 Monitoring of CFC Production and Emissions
16.2.5 Discovery of the Antarctic Ozone Hole
16.2.6 Ozone Trends Panel
16.2.7 Monitoring of Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure
16.2.8 Monitoring of Acid Deposition in Europe
16.2.9 Forest Monitoring
16.2.10 Integrated Monitoring Systems
16.3 Patterns in and Motivations for Monitoring
16.3.1  Patterns over Time
16.3.2  Changes in Acid Rain Monitoring
16.3.3 The Links between Monitoring and other Risk Management Functions
16.3.4 Is There Evidence that Monitoring of Global Environmental Risks “Improves” with Time?
16.4 Problems and Pitfalls in Monitoring
Appendix 16A Acronyms
Notes
References

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