Assessments of regional and global environmental risks : designing processes for the effective use of science in decisionmaking / edited by Alexander E. Farrell, Jill Jäger.

Overview: understanding design choices / Alex Farrell, Jill Jäger, and Stacy VanDeveer
European politics with a scientific face: framing, asymmetrical participation and capacity in LRTAP / Stacy D. VanDeveer
Dissent and trust in multilateral assessments: comparing LRTAP and OTAG / Alexander E. Farrell and Terry J. Keating
Applying assessment lessons to new challenges: from sulfur to POPs / Noelle Eckley Selin
Making climate change impacts meaningful: framing, methods, and process in coastal zone and agriculture assessments / Marybeth Long Martello and Alastair Iles
Dealing with uncertainty: how do you assess the impossible? / Anthony Patt
Limits to assessment: an example from regional abrupt climate change
Assessment in the United States / David C. Lund
Can assessments learn, and if so, how? a study of the IPCC / Bernd Siebenhüner
The design and management of international scientific assessments: lessons from the climate regime / Clark A. Miller
Designing better environmental assessments for developing countries: lessons from the U.S. country studies program / Oladele A. Ogunseitan
Grounds for hope: assessing technological options to manage ozone depletion / Edward A. Parson
Global hazards and catastrophic risk: assessments in the reinsurance industry / Mojdeh Keykhah
Making sustainability assessments more useful for institutional investors / Bernd Kasemir, Andrea Süess, and Raphael Schaub
Improving the practice of environmental assessment / Jill Jäger and Alexander E. Farrell.