Strategies for Managing Global Environmental Risks

A Executive summary: Strategies for Managing Global Environmental Risks.- 1 Global change: A fresh approach to new risks.- 2 Localizing risks in normal, transitional and prohibited areas.- 3 Categorization according to risk classes.- 4 Class-specific strategies and tools for action.- 5 Prime recommendations for action.- B Introduction.- C Concepts of risk and their applications.- 1 Risk: Concepts and implications.- 2 Categories of damage and criteria for selecting globally relevant environmental risks.- 3 Risk characterization.- 4 Constructing a typology of risk.- D The environmentally mediated risk potentials of global change.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Technological risks.- 3 Infectious diseases as a global risk.- 4 Biological risks.- 5 Biogeochemical and chemical risks.- 6 Climate risks.- 7 Natural disasters.- 8 Synopsis: An overview of global risk potentials.- E Integrated risk analysis.- 1 Risk modulators (amplifiers and intervening factors).- 2 Specific vulnerabilities of regions and social groups.- 3 Examples of complex risks.- 4 Risk potentials of complex environmental systems.- F Risk policy.- 1 Risk evaluation and the choice of tools.- 2 Liability.- 3 Environmental liability funds.- 4 Permitting procedures.- 5 Environmental levies and tradeable permits.- 6 Political strategies.- 7 Risk communication.- 8 Discursive approaches.- G Strategies for dealing with unknown risks.- 1 The importance of unknown risks: Preventing 'future ozone holes'.- 2 Discovering unknown risks as an environmental policy task.- 3 The importance of cognitive, motivational and social factors for dealing with unknown risks.- 4 Preventive risk management under uncertainty.- 5 Synthesis.- H Recommendations.- 1 Recommendations for research.- 2 Recommendations for political action.- I References.-J Glossary.- K The German Advisory Council on Global Change.- L Index.