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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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