Making Better Environmental Decisions: An Alternative to Risk Assessment

For the past quarter-century, government and the private sector have relied heavily on risk assessment for making decisions, allowing widespread environmental deterioration. In this book, Mary O'Brien recommends a simple yet profound shift to another decision-making technique: "alternatives assessment." Instead of asking how much of a hazardous activity is safe (which translates into how much damage the environment can tolerate), alternatives assessment asks how we can avoid or minimize damage while achieving society's goals. Alternatives assessment is a simple, commonsense alternative to risk assessment. It is based on the premise that it is not acceptable to damage human and nonhuman health or the environment if there are reasonable alternatives. The approach calls for taking precautionary measures even if some cause-and-effect relationships have not been fully established scientifically. The process must involve an examination of the full range of alternatives, including no action at all. Equally important, it must be democratic and include potentially affected parties. O'Brien not only makes a persuasive case for alternative assessment; she tells how to implement it. She also shows how this technique has profound implications for public health, for our stewardship of the environment, and for a truly democratic government. Published in association with the Environmental Research Foundation.

Science & Math

O'Brien, Mary

Earth Sciences

Mit Pr

For the past quarter-century, government and the private sector have relied heavily on risk assessment for making decisions, allowing widespread environmental deterioration. In this book, Mary O'Brien recommends a simple yet profound shift to another decision-making technique: "alternatives assessment." Instead of asking how much of a hazardous activity is safe (which translates into how much damage the environment can tolerate), alternatives assessment asks how we can avoid or minimize damage while achieving society's goals. Alternatives assessment is a simple, commonsense alternative to risk assessment. It is based on the premise that it is not acceptable to damage human and nonhuman health or the environment if there are reasonable alternatives. The approach calls for taking precautionary measures even if some cause-and-effect relationships have not been fully established scientifically. The process must involve an examination of the full range of alternatives, including no action at all. Equally important, it must be democratic and include potentially affected parties. O'Brien not only makes a persuasive case for alternative assessment; she tells how to implement it. She also shows how this technique has profound implications for public health, for our stewardship of the environment, and for a truly democratic government. Published in association with the Environmental Research Foundation.

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An ideal read-aloud for sleep-resistant toddlers depicts the plight of a farmer as she tries to get her rambunctious sheep to settle down for the night.

Counting Sheep to Sleep

Children's Books

Little,Brown & Co

Reproducing The World

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Routledge

Messages from your Soul is the first book in the series CONVERSATIONS WITH DZAR. It contains practices and a powerful Meditation brought forward by DZAR, a group of compassionate Energies from All That Is, to support your reconnection to your Soul and to your Expanded Being. "As you begin to understand your own expansiveness you will begin to feel your connection to everything, you will begin to feel your expression of Self that is connected to those around you and to the earth you walk upon. When you do this, you will see yourself in the stars for they are expressing the same light as you. We are Messengers from All That Is called forward by you to reconnect you to your pure essence of joy and compassion. So many of you feel alone, you feel separate, isolated and disconnected. We want you to know that you are not alone, for you have access to Energies inside and outside of you that are waiting to support you to live a life of joy and connection with all things. It is time for you to remember that you are part of something much bigger than your physical body, much bigger than the consciousness and the environment that you exist within.It is time for you to connect to your Expanded Being. Your essence and that of the universe are the frequency of compassion, because you are the same, there is no difference, there is no separation. As you connect to your Expanded Being and learn to listen to the messages of your Soul, you will merge back into that boundless sea of compassion and begin to experience the joy and abundance of all creation. This is the message we bring to you." DZAR Mary and Gary O'Brien share the messages brought forward by DZAR. They have over 20 years experience working with people to create change in their lives and since 2008 they have become the vehicle for the message channelled from Spirit called The Path of DZAR. Based in Australia, they offer workshops and events in many countries as well as online courses. More information about their workshops as well as free Meditations, podcasts and videos are available at www.thepathofdzar.com

Messages from your Soul. Conversations with DZAR Book 1

Self-Help

O'Brien, Gary

Personal Transformation

Source Creations

The politics of reproduction

Discusses the political implications of reproduction, examines feminist and traditional masculine theories, and suggests a reformed interpretation of Marxist principles

The Politics of Reproduction

Social Sciences

Unwin Hyman

At last! The first ever Bumper Book of Simplex Crosswords. For the thousands of fans who have been asking for a new book of Simplex crosswords, it's been worth the wait. Containing 300 Simplex crosswords, all newly-published in book form, the first ever

Bumper Book of Simplex Crosswords: From The Irish Times

Humor & Entertainment

Puzzles & Games

Gill Books

The next book in the highly successful Simplex series. It contains 150 Crosswords with Clues and Answers.

Bumper Simplex 2

GILL MACMILLAN

Here are another 150 puzzles from Ireland's favourite crossword The Simplex crossword is one of the most popular items in The Irish Times, with tens of thousands of readers attempting to solve it every day for over sixty years. Challenging enough to tax the brain cells, but designed so that it can be completed on the train or in a lunch hour, this huge collection is great value and a must for every crossword fan. This is the ideal way to keep your puzzle-solving skills up to scratch whether you're on holiday, commuting or simply relaxing at home.

Bumper Simplex 3

An adventurous single woman who knew how to cook, twenty-three-year-old May Arkwright moved — alone — to the remote valleys of northern Idaho in 1883. She opened a one-table restaurant for the silver prospectors near Wallace, serving her homemade berry pies and hot dishes. Before long, she was a well-known part of the fledgling mining district. May, a large, outspoken woman who favored low-cut, brightly colored dresses, scandalized the “proper” women of town. But her self-confidence and ease with people helped her make important friends among the miners, merchants, and railroad men who ate at her table. After she met and married local train engineer Al Hutton, the two invested in a mine upstream from Wallace. After several long years they struck it rich and moved to Spokane, where May spent the rest of her life working on philanthropic projects that still affect residents of the Pacific Northwest to this day. As related through the skilled storytelling of Mary Barmeyer O’Brien, this larger-than-life woman’s story adds a compelling new element to the history of the West.

May: The Hard-Rock Life of Pioneer May Arkwright Hutton

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

TwoDot

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Books by O'Brien, Mary

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Making Better Environmental Decisions: An Alternative to Risk Assessment

Making Better Environmental Decisions: An Alternative to Risk Assessment

Counting Sheep to Sleep

Reproducing The World

Messages from your Soul. Conversations with DZAR Book 1

The Politics of Reproduction

Bumper Book of Simplex Crosswords: From The Irish Times

Bumper Simplex 2

Bumper Simplex 3

May: The Hard-Rock Life of Pioneer May Arkwright Hutton