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Environmental questions and human geography
In: International social science journal: ISSJ, Band 38, Heft 1986
ISSN: 0020-8701
Surveys the role of human geography in the study of environmental questions. Describes three key characteristics of the geographical approach, then looks at the geographical treatment of resource endowment and utilisation, the impact of resource development, the environment's ability to sustain development, attitudes to the environment, and environmental management. (CP)
Monergy: Qualifying Imperfect Measures of Need and of Performance
In: Environment and planning. C, Government and policy, Band 6, Heft 2, S. 209-223
ISSN: 1472-3425
In this paper a recently developed framework designed to facilitate the expression, interpretation, and communication of imperfect quantitative information is adapted in order to elucidate the quality and significance of recently published measures of UK energy efficiency (MONERGY) need and performance. The analysis in the paper uncovers a considerable variability in the quality of the publicised measures; this in turn provides crucial pointers to the way they should be interpreted, and in some cases indicates ground for possible improvement.
The nature of risk
In: Journal of risk research: the official journal of the Society for Risk Analysis Europe and the Society for Risk Analysis Japan, Band 7, Heft 3, S. 315-352
ISSN: 1466-4461
Coping with Risk: The Case of Gas Facilities in Scotland
In: Environment and planning. C, Government and policy, Band 2, Heft 3, S. 343-360
ISSN: 1472-3425
Aspects of the publicly acknowledged assessment of risk in siting-decisions in Scotland for potentially hazardous North Sea gas processing-installations are considered. Safety issues were of concern to the respective local authority councils and planning departments, the Health and Safety Executive, the developers seeking planning permission, and, in various instances, port authorities, Secretaries of State, and public-interest groups. The assessment of potential risk to the public by each of these main agencies is analysed and evaluated, illustrating key features from a decade which has seen significant changes in the art of risk assessment in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the world, and related, though rather more modest, changes in practice.
Coping with risk: the case of gas facilities in Scotland [risk assessment in decisions on siting]
In: Environment & planning: international journal of urban and regional research. C, Government & policy, Band 2, Heft 3, S. 343-360
ISSN: 0263-774X
Risk Analysis and Decision Processes
In: Journal of policy analysis and management: the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Band 5, Heft 3, S. 624
ISSN: 1520-6688