Priority Topics in the Study of Environmental Risk in Developing Countries: Report on a Workshop Held at the East–West Center, August, 1988 |
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| Authors: | Sylvia A Edgerton Kirk R Smith Richard A Carpenter Toufiq A Siddiqi Steven G Olive Corazon Pe Benito Claudio Vincent T Covello Donald J Fingleton Kwi-Gon Kim Bruce A Wilcox |
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| Institution: | Environment and Policy Institute, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii 96848.;Industrial Engineering Department, University of the Philippines, San Juan, Metro Manila, Philippines.;School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New New York 10032;Energy and Environmental Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439.;Department of Landscape Architecture, Seoul National University, Seoul 151, Korea.;Institute for Sustainable Development, Palo Alto, California 94306. |
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| Abstract: | The rapid industrialization occurring in developing regions of the world brings not only economic benefits, but changes in the types and severity of health and environmental problems that each region experiences. As the industrialized world moves toward the use of risk assessment methodologies to aid in problem evaluation and regulatory and policy decision analysis, it seems inevitable that these methodologies will be applied globally. The changes brought about by rapid industrialization, however, must be viewed within the context of societies that are still struggling with the more traditional and basic environmental problems associated with urban and rural poverty. The urgency of development and the lack of adequate resources for characterizing health and environmental changes, often present under these circumstances, offer special challenges to the application of risk assessment methodologies. |
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| Keywords: | Developing countries global risk international cooperation risk transition |
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