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Main Title Business and Environmental Risks Spatial Interactions Between Environmental Hazards and Social Vulnerabilities in Ibero-America / [electronic resource] :
Type EBOOK
Author Vázquez-Brust, Diego A.
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Plaza-Úbeda, José A.
de Burgos-Jiménez, Jerónimo.
Natenzon, Claudia E.
Publisher Springer Netherlands,
Year Published 2012
Call Number GE196
ISBN 9789400727427
Subjects Environmental sciences ; Geographical information systems ; Environmental law ; Sustainable development ; Environmental pollution ; Regional economics ; Human Geography
Internet Access
Description Access URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2742-7
Collation XXVIII, 152 p. online resource.
Notes Due to license restrictions, this resource is available to EPA employees and authorized contractors only
Contents Notes Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Evaluating the Firm's Environmental Risk: A Conceptual Framework -- 3. Statistical Information For the Analysis of Social Vulnerability in Latin America - Comparison With Spain -- 4. Evaluating the Firm's Environmental Hazard: Methodology -- 5. The Case of Bolivia -- 6. The Case Of Argentina -- 7. The Case Of Spain -- 8. Concluding Remarks -- Index. 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. The authors perform this assessment at two levels: a regional one that identifies average risk over large administrative areas such as provinces, and at a more detailed scale they name the 'census unit', to determine the distribution in the locality of risk-laden and contaminating industries. The methodology applied allows for greater accuracy and detail in identifying geographical variations in calculating the levels of risk within a single country. It also facilitates more productive comparisons different countries in Ibero-America.
Place Published Dordrecht
Corporate Au Added Ent SpringerLink (Online service)
Host Item Entry Springer eBooks
PUB Date Free Form 2012
BIB Level m
Medium computer
Content text
Carrier online resource
Cataloging Source OCLC/T
OCLC Time Stamp 20140127025306
Language eng
Origin SPRINGER
Type EBOOK
OCLC Rec Leader 03783nam a22005655i 45