Overview: understanding design choices / Alex Farrell, Jill Jäger, and Stacy VanDeveer
European politics with a scientific face: framing, asymmetrical participation and capacity in LRTAP / Stacy D. VanDeveer
Dissent and trust in multilateral assessments: comparing LRTAP and OTAG / Alexander E. Farrell and Terry J. Keating
Applying assessment lessons to new challenges: from sulfur to POPs / Noelle Eckley Selin
Making climate change impacts meaningful: framing, methods, and process in coastal zone and agriculture assessments / Marybeth Long Martello and Alastair Iles
Dealing with uncertainty: how do you assess the impossible? / Anthony Patt
Limits to assessment: an example from regional abrupt climate change
Assessment in the United States / David C. Lund
Can assessments learn, and if so, how? a study of the IPCC / Bernd Siebenhüner
The design and management of international scientific assessments: lessons from the climate regime / Clark A. Miller
Designing better environmental assessments for developing countries: lessons from the U.S. country studies program / Oladele A. Ogunseitan
Grounds for hope: assessing technological options to manage ozone depletion / Edward A. Parson
Global hazards and catastrophic risk: assessments in the reinsurance industry / Mojdeh Keykhah
Making sustainability assessments more useful for institutional investors / Bernd Kasemir, Andrea Süess, and Raphael Schaub
Improving the practice of environmental assessment / Jill Jäger and Alexander E. Farrell.
Assessments of regional and global environmental risks : designing processes for the effective use of science in decisionmaking. ISBN 193311505X. Published by Resources for the Future in 2006. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.