Risk science and sustainability : science for reduction of risk and sustainable development of society /
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| Meeting name: | NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Science for Reduction of Risk and Sustainable Development of Society (2002 : Budapest, Hungary) |
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| Imprint: | Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic : Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affiars Division, c2003. |
| Description: | xvi, 240 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | NATO science series. Series II, Mathematics, physics, and chemistry ; v. 112 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5018241 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Workshop Initiative, Programme and Organising Committees
- Workshop Synopsis
- Budapest Manifesto
- Talks
- The Globalisation of Risk in the XXIst Century
- Risk and Sustainability in Water Resources Management
- Aids to Decision-Making in Risk Management: Mobilisation of the Scientific Community to Improve Risk Management
- Science and Risk: Scientific Authority at Risk
- Basic Science for Prediction and Reduction of Geological Disasters
- Papers
- Environmental Risk and Sustainability
- Science for Risk Reduction and Sustainable Development: the Role of Law
- Sustainable Development and Risk Evaluation: Challenges and Possible New Methodologies
- On Predictability of Homicide Surges in Megacities
- Earthquakes and Megacities
- Case Studies
- Earth Sciences Contribution to the Sustainable Development of Ground Transportation Systems: Relevant Case Studies in Central Europe
- Modelling of Stress and Seismicity in the South-Eastern Carpathians: A Basis for Seismic Risk Estimation
- Earthquake Loss Estimation For India Based on Macroeconomic Indicators
- Monitors and Methods for Investigation of Submarine Landslides, Seawater Intrusion and Contaminated Groundwater Discharge as Coastal Hazards
- Risk of Collective Youth Violence in French Suburbs: A Clinical Scale of Evaluation, an Alert System
- Abstracts
- Lessons from Macrophagic Myofasciitis: Towards Definition of a Vaccine Adjuvant-Related Syndrome (abstract)
- Flood Risk Management in the Upper Tisza Basin in Hungary: A System Analytical Approach (abstract)
- Volcanoes and Cities (abstract)
- Geo-Risk Management Practices in the Asia Pacific Region (abstract)
- Values, Interests and Symbolic Politics in a Nuclear Waste Disposal Debate: About the Societal Dimensions of Risk Perception (abstract)
- Appendix
- List of Contributors
- List of Reviewers
- Subject Index