Suchergebnisse

In search of spatial extremes / A. Stein [and others] -- Operational evaluation of air quality models / P.D. Sampson and P. Guttorp -- Assessing the human health risk of atmospheric particles / R.L. Smith, J.M. David and P. Speckman -- Ozone dose mapping and the utility of models / C.W. Anderson and R.I. Smith -- Measuring and modelling pollution for risk analysis / J.V. Zidek and N.D. Lee -- A preliminary statistical examination of the efffects of uncertainty and variability on environmental regulatory criteria for ozone / L.H. Cox [and others] -- Statistics and environmental policy : case studies from long-term environmental monitoring data / R. Goudey and G. Laslett -- Better late than never? Injecting statistical know-how into legislation on water quality / A.E. Warn -- Indicator quality for multidisciplinary systems / J. Riley -- Integrating data for sustainable development : introducing the distribution of resources framework / J. Heycox -- Does environmental data collection need statistics? / M.P.J. Pulles -- Air pollution statistics in policy applications / R.I. Smith -- Agriculture sector resource and environmental policy analysis : an economic and biophysical approach / R.M. House [and others].

"The book describes both current and emerging environmental hazards to human and related ecosystem health and discusses policies and their public health foundations. Public health concerns are presented as their nexus with ecosystem concerns. Current hazards described include air pollution, impure water, unsafe food, toxic substances, pesticides, tobacco products, and hazardous waste. Emerging areas of import to potential environmental effects and nascent policies include: climate change, genetically-modified organisms, the built environment, environment-related diseases, endangered species,and energy and transportation. The book is written from a global perspective of environment hazards. "--Provided by publisher.

Abstract.Political scientists are increasingly studying public policy in interdisciplinary environments where they are challenged by the political and normative agenda of other disciplines. Political science has unique perspectives to offer, including a stress on the political feasibility of policy in an environment of power differentials. Our contributions should be informed by the insights of cognitive psychology and we should focus on improving governance, in particular the competence and integrity of decision makers. The discipline's stress on legitimacy and acceptability provides a normative anchor, but we should not over invest in the idea that incentives will achieve normative goals. Creating decision situations that overcome cognitive deficiencies is ultimately the most important strategy.Résumé.Les politologues étudient les politiques publiques dans des contextes de plus en plus interdisciplinaires, où ils sont remis en question par les préoccupations politique et normatives d'autres disciplines. La science politique a des perspectives uniques à offrir, y compris un accent sur la faisabilité politique des politiques publiques dans un contexte de relations de pouvoir asymétriques. Nos contributions doivent être informées par les idées associées à la psychologie cognitive et nous devrions nous concentrer sur l'amélioration de la gouvernance, et notamment la compétence et l'intégrité des décideurs. L'accent de notre discipline sur la légitimité et l'acceptabilité fournit un point d'ancrage normatif, mais il ne faut pas trop investir dans l'idée que des mesures incitatives permettront nécessairement d'atteindre des objectifs normatifs. Créer des situations de décision qui surmontent les lacunes cognitives des acteurs est finalement la stratégie la plus importante à adopter.