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Record Nr.

UNINA9911018831303321

Titolo

Environmental statistics : analysing data for environmental policy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester ; ; New York, : Wiley, 1999

ISBN

9786612348129

9781282348127

1282348124

9780470515600

0470515600

9780470515624

0470515627

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (294 p.)

Collana

Novartis Foundation symposium ; ; 220

Disciplina

363.7

363.70072

Soggetti

Environmental sciences - Statistical methods

Environmental monitoring - Statistical methods

Environmental policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Symposium held at the Novartis Foundation, London, 11-13 May 1998.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

ENVIRONMENTAL STATISTICS: ANALYSING DATA FOR ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; Contents; Participants; Chairman's introduction; In search of spatial extremes; Operational evaluation of air quality models; General discussion I; Assessing the human health risk of atmospheric particles; Ozone dose mapping and the utility of models; General discussion I1; Measuring and modelling pollution for risk analysis; A preliminary statistical examination of the effects of uncertainty and variability on environmental regulatory criteria for ozone

Statistics and environmental policy: case studies from long-term environmental monitoring dataBetter late than never? Injecting statistical know-how into legislation on water quality; General discussion I11; Indicator quality for multidisciplinary systems; Integrating data for sustainable development: introducing the distribution of resources framework; Does environmental data



collection need statistics?; Air pollution statistics in policy applications; Agriculture sector resource and environmental policy analysis: an economic and biophysical approach; Final discussion; Index of contributors

Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

Environmental statistics is a rapidly growing discipline that is important not only as a division of professional and academic statistics, but also in the accumulation of data on environmental effects and in the formulation of environmental policy by government agencies. This book features contributions from policy makers, scientists actively involved in collection of data, and professional, academic and government statisticians.  These explore the interfaces between the different areas of application of environmental statistics and consider the future applications of methods arising from th