Global Environmental Risk

Despite international initiatives such as the Earth Summit in 1992 and ongoing efforts to implement the Kyoto Protocol, human activities continue to take toll on the planetary environment. This book takes stock of the distinctive challenges posed by global environmental risks, the capacity of knowledge systems to identify and characterize such risks, and the competence of human society to manage the unprecedented complexity. Various chapters enlist different scales of analysis to explore the manifestation and causes of global environmental risks in all the diversity of their regional expression.

A UNU Publication Book Information: Sales Number: E.00.III.A.9 ISBN 9280810278 592pp. List price: $39.95 Special Academic Price: $20.00