Overview
- Confronts a long-standing paucity of research into the vicious circle of poverty and environmental degradation
- Provides a conceptual framework for understanding the key challenges to sustainable growth in developing and developed countries
- Confronts the limitations of Kuznet’s developmental model
- Multi-disciplinary and holistic approach to assessing the interdependencies between environmental threats, industrial activity, risk, poverty and vulnerability facilitates development of workable solutions
- Stress-tested methodology deploys adapted approaches for different data-sets, scenarios and circumstances, thus allowing for limitations in official data
- Includes detailed maps and color figures allowing for comparative analysis
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Based on detailed research funded across two continents and involving universities in Argentina, Spain and the UK, this book sets out an innovative, multidisciplinary approach to assessing both environmental and social risks in a given territorial area. Using data from a number of Ibero-American nations, the study combines environmental, socio-economic and geographic factors to construct a set of spatial and technical indicators that measure the social vulnerability and industrial hazardousness of a defined area. Aggregating these indicators in a geographic information system (GIS) allows researchers to assess the potential risk to which a certain area and its population are subject as a result of the environmental deterioration caused by co-located industrial activity.
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Business and Environmental Risks
Book Subtitle: Spatial Interactions Between Environmental Hazards and Social Vulnerabilities in Ibero-America
Editors: Diego A. Vázquez-Brust, José A. Plaza-Úbeda, Jerónimo de Burgos-Jiménez, Claudia E. Natenzon
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2742-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-2741-0Published: 05 November 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8211-1Published: 26 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-2742-7Published: 10 December 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 152
Topics: Sustainable Development, Industrial Pollution Prevention, Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Human Geography, Regional/Spatial Science