Environmental Security and Environmental Management: The Role of Risk Assessment : Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workhop on The Role of Risk Assessment in Environmental Security and Emergency Preparedness in the Mediterranean Region, held in Eilat, Israel, April 15-18, 2004 - Morel, Benoit; Linkov, Igor.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2006)
Environmental Security -- ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY, CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND RISK ASSESSMENT: DEFINITIONS AND CURRENT TRENDS1 -- SECURITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST WATER ISSUES -- POTENTIAL OF SOLAR THERMAL DESALINATION TO DEFUSE WATER AS A CONFLICT ISSUE IN THE MIDDLE EAST Proposal for Functional Cooperation in the Gulf of Aqaba -- WATER RESOURCES MANAGEMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY IN MEDITERRANEAN TRANSBOUNDARY RIVER BASINS -- THE ROLE OF COMPARATIVE RISK ASSESSMENT IN DECISION ANALYSIS MARSHLANDS OF MESOPOTAMIA AND AFFECTED RIPARIAN COUNTRIES -- A FUTURE FOR THE DEAD SEA BASIN: OPTIONS FOR A MORE SUSTAINABLE WATER MANAGEMENT -- ARE STANDARD RISK ACCEPTABILITY CRITERIA APPLICABLE TO CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE BASED ON ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY NEEDS?1 -- FROM GLOBAL WARMING TO WATER SCARCITY: WHAT ARE THE MOST URGENT ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS OF THE REGION. Report of the Discussion Group on Environmental Security -- Environmental Security, Critical Infrastructure and Risk Assessment: Definitions and Current Trends -- Environmental Management -- THE INTERCONNECTION BETWEEN THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT ECOLOGY AND HEALTH -- Security and the Environment in the Middle East Water Issues -- Potential of Solar Thermal Desalination to Defuse Water as a Conflict Issue in the Middle East -- Water Resources Management and Environmental Security in Mediterranean Transboundary River Basins -- The Role of Comparative Risk Assessment in Decision Analysis Marshlands of Mesopotamia and Affected Riparian Countries -- A Future for the Dead Sea Basin: Options for a More Sustainable Water Management -- Are Standard Risk Acceptability Criteria Applicable to Critical Infrastructure Based on Environmental Security Needs? -- From Global Warming to Water Scarcity: What Are the Most Urgent Environmental Problems of the Region -- The Interconnection between the Built Environment Ecology and Health -- Statistical Models for Distributions of Ambient Fine Particulate Matter -- QND: A Scenario-Based Gaming System for Modeling Environmental Processes and Management Decisions -- Mapping of Relative Risk -- Understanding Risk Culture and Developing a' soft' Approach to Risk Assessment Methodologies -- Different Preventive Strategies Require Diversified Risk Assessment Models -- Coupling Public Participation and Expert Judgment for Assessment of Innovative Contaminated Sediment Technologies -- Environmental Risk Assessment and Management: Promoting Security in the Middle East and the Mediterranean Region -- Reuse of Wastewater in Agriculture- Economic Assessment of Treatment and Supply Alternatives as Affecting Aquifer Pollution -- Minimizing the Risks Associated with Water Scarcity -- Integrated Risk-Based Management of Water Resources in the Jordan River Basin -- Outcome of NATO Workshop on Radiological Risk in Central Asia -- Public Transport Policy & Measures That Could Improve the Air Quality in Major Cities in Syria -- Modeling the Combination of Impacts Caused by Waste Heat Discharge from Power Plant Cooling Systems into Offshore Environments -- Role of Synergy in Biological Risk Assessment -- Cooperative Network for Environmental Risk Analysis Studies: The Case of the Middle East Region.
Keywords: Environmental management; Ecotoxicology; Business; Management science; Life sciences; Environmental monitoring; Environmental Management; Ecotoxicology; Business and Management, general; Life Sciences, general; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis