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Business and Environmental Risks

Spatial Interactions Between Environmental Hazards and Social Vulnerabilities in Ibero-America

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  • © 2012

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Editors:
  1. Diego A. Vázquez-Brust

    1. Cardiff University, BRASS, Cardiff, United Kingdom

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  2. José A. Plaza-Úbeda

    1. , Dept. Company Direction and Management, University of Almeria, Almería, Spain

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  3. Jerónimo de Burgos-Jiménez

    1. , Dept. Company Direction and Management, University of Almeria, Almería, Spain

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  4. Claudia E. Natenzon

    1. University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Institute of Geography, Buenos Aires, Argentina

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  • 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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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxvii
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  2. Introduction

    • José A. Plaza-Úbeda, Claudia E. Natenzon, Diego A. Vazquez-Brust, Jerónimo de Burgos-Jiménez, Julieta Barrenechea
    Pages 1-14

  3. Evaluating the Firm’s Environmental Risk: A Conceptual Framework

    • Diego A. Vazquez-Brust, Claudia E. Natenzon, Jerónimo de Burgos-Jiménez, José A. Plaza-Úbeda, Sergio D. López
    Pages 15-33

  4. Statistical Information for the Analysis of Social Vulnerability in Latin America – Comparison with Spain

    • Anabel Calvo, Mariana L. Caspani, Julieta Barrenechea, Claudia E. Natenzon
    Pages 35-52

  5. Evaluating the Firm’s Environmental Hazardousness: Methodology

    • Sergio D. López, Diego A. Vazquez-Brust
    Pages 53-67

  6. The Case of Bolivia

    • Luis Augusto Ballivián-Céspedes, Yolanda Bueno-Cachadiña, Sergio D. López
    Pages 69-90

  7. The Case of Argentina

    • Claudia E. Natenzon, Diego A. Vazquez-Brust, Sergio D. López
    Pages 91-116

  8. The Case of Spain

    • José A. Plaza-Úbeda, Julieta Barrenechea, Jerónimo de Burgos-Jiménez, Miguel Pérez-Valls, Sergio D. López
    Pages 117-135

  9. Concluding Remarks

    • Jerónimo de Burgos-Jiménez, Diego A. Vazquez-Brust, José A. Plaza-Úbeda, Claudia E. Natenzon
    Pages 137-144

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 145-150
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Cardiff University, BRASS, Cardiff, United Kingdom

    Diego A. Vázquez-Brust

  • , Dept. Company Direction and Management, University of Almeria, Almería, Spain

    José A. Plaza-Úbeda, Jerónimo de Burgos-Jiménez

  • University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, Institute of Geography, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Claudia E. Natenzon

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