General & Miscellaneous Environmental Policies, Environmental Economics, Health Policy, Environmental Conservation & Protection - General & Miscellaneous, Natural Resources - General & Miscellaneous
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Overview
British environmental scientist Langford (1962-2002) specialized in environmental risk and human health related issues. The 22 articles here, written during the final decade of his life, cover human health and epidemiology, risk perception and social psychology, environmental valuation, and policy analysis. Among the specific topics are multivariate spatial models for event data, perceptions of risk for malignant melanoma skin cancer from sunlight among young people in Britain and New Zealand, elicitation and truncation effects in contingent valuation studies, and implications for environmental justice of the relationship between socio-economic indicators and air pollution in England and Wales. The articles are reproduced from their original publication. Only names are indexed. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, ORBook Details
Published
September 1, 2004
Publisher
Elgar, Edward Publishing, Inc.
Pages
328
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781843767985