Table 8: Risk Management
| Author | Title | Description | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Callow P (Editor) (1997) | Handbook of Environmental Risk Assessment and Management | Book: Explains, with examples, how scientific methodologies can be used to assess risk from human activities, and the risk from those wastes on people and the (urban) environment. | Blackwall Science, Oxford; Malden, MA (UK) |
| Lowe R (2001) | A Review of Recent and Current Initiatives on Climate Change and its Impact on the Built Environment: Impact, effectiveness and recommendations | Website report: Examines the need to ensure climate change adaptation strategies are developed with due consideration for other agendas for change within the construction industry and the built environment. | Online: http://www.crisp-uk.org.uk/ See under `Climate Change’ under `Publications’ on the main menu. (UK) |
| McMichael A, Woodruff R, Whetton P, Hennessy K, Nicholls, N, Hales S, Woodward A and Kjellstrom T (2003) | Human Health and Climate Change in Oceania: a risk assessment 2002 | Website report: Provides, from a health perspective, a risk assessment of various potential health impacts of climate change over the coming decades in Australasia and the Pacific Islands. Examines ways of assessing and estimating risk factor-disease relationships particularly in urban and coastal settlements. |
(Australia) |
| Petts J (Editor) (1999) | Handbook of Environmental Impact Assessment Volumes I and II | Book: Volume I addresses environmental impact assessment (EIA) in the context of sustainable development. Volume II considers EIA practice internationally and provides ‘how to’ guidance. | Blackwall Science, Malden, MA (UK) |
| Tyndall Centre for Climate Change | Decarbonising Modern Societies | Website: Assesses options for decarbonising modern societies in line with the global, UK and local contexts of sustainable development. Projects include the Community Carbon Reduction Project (www.cred-uk.org). | Online: http://www.tyndall.ac.uk/welcome.html (UK) |
| O’Brien J G (1992) | Urban Tree Risk Management | A community guide, prepared for the USDA Forest Service, to assist the development and implementation of programmes to manage risks to urban trees. | Online: http://www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/uf/utrmm/index.htm (USA) |
| Victorian EPA (2002) | The Australian Greenhouse Calculator | Website: Available on-line or as CD-ROM, this programme calculates yearly greenhouse gas emissions for households and is suitable as a school teaching resource, and for home advisory services, consumer organisations, etc. | Online: http://www.epa.vic.gov.au/GreenhouseCalculator/calculator/default.asp (Australia) |
| Willows R I and Connell R K (Eds.) (2003) | Climate adaptation: Risk uncertainty and decision-making (UKCIP Technical Report) | Website report: Provides a step-by-step decision-making framework designed to help decision-makers manage their activities in the face of an uncertain future climate. | Online: http://www.ukcip.org.uk/risk_uncert/risk_uncert.html Email: enquiries@ukcip.org.uk (UK) |
