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Title Risk assessment and management for environmental protection in Sub-Saharan Africa / Eike Albrecht, Terence Omang Egute, George Teke Forbid, editors
Published Berlin : Lexxion, ©2011

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Contents Intro -- Foreword -- Acknowledgement -- Table of Contents -- Introductory Synopsis -- Notes on Authors -- Part I: Perspectives and Approaches to Risk Management -- Chapter 1 -- An Economic Analysis of Environmental Management Systems: Is it Applicable to Cameroonian Firms? -- Chapter 2 -- Psychophysical Determinants of Waste Sector Workforce Performance: Integrating Behavioural Safety in Risk Management Systems -- Chapter 3 -- Assessing and Managing Risk for Environmental Protection: The Case of Ghana
Chapter 4 -- An Appraisal of the Landslide Hazards and their Mitigation Along the Cameroon Volcanic Line -- Chapter 5 -- How to Spend Money for Conservation Cost-effectively? Possibilities of Knowledge Transfer from the German SOKO Bio Project to Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 6 -- Risk Management and Risk Assessment for Environmental Protection in Sub-Saharan Africa: Case of Cameroon -- Chapter 7 -- Minimising Student Returnees Success Risk: The Meaning and Importance of Alumni Networks -- Part II: Effective Resource Management for Environmental Sustainability
Chapter 8 -- Assessing and Managing Risks Associated with Inefficient Waste Disposal Practices: Case Study of Cameroon -- Chapter 9 -- Solid Waste Management and Environmental Protection in Cameroon -- Chapter 10 -- Infection Prevention (IP): An Aspect of Risk Management in Health Facilities -- Chapter 11 -- Environmental Law and Local Traditional Practices as Potential Tools in Combating Forest Biodiversity Loss in Cameroon -- Chapter 12 -- A New Sustainable Waste Management Policy Approach that Optimises Environmental Protection
Chapter 13 -- Environmental Risk Management of Protected Areas in the North West Region -- Part III: Examining Environmental Impact Assessment Tools and Climate Change Mitigation -- Chapter 14 -- EIA and SEA in International Environmental Law -- Chapter 15 -- The State of the Art Application of Environmental Sustainability Tool: Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Practice in Nigeria -- Chapter 16 -- Effect of Climate Change on Food Security in Vulnerable Areas of Ghana: Focus on the Upper West Region
Chapter 17 -- Effects of Climate Change on Water Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa: Case Study of the Lake Chad Basin -- Part IV: Assessing and Managing Risks Associated with Surface and Groundwater Pollution -- Chapter 18 -- Human Impact on Groundwater -- Chapter 19 -- An Approach to Hydrogeological Risk Assessment in Mineral Exploration in Ghana -- Chapter 20 -- The Concentration, Sources and Control of Nitrate-Nitrogen Pollution Along the Cameroon Coastline
Appendix -- First Alumni Conference Report of Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus, Germany Held at Buea University, Cameroon in Sub-Saharan Africa
Subject Environmental risk assessment -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Congresses
Environmental management -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Congresses
Environmental protection -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Congresses
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
Environmental management
Environmental protection
Environmental risk assessment
Sub-Saharan Africa
Genre/Form Electronic books
Conference papers and proceedings
Form Electronic book
Author Albrecht, Elke
Egute, Terence Onang
Forbid, George Teke
Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus. Alumni Conference (2008 : University of Buea)
ISBN 9783869651613
386965161X