Titlebook: Business and Environmental Risks; Spatial Interactions Diego A. Vázquez-Brust,José A. Plaza-úbeda,Claudia Book 2012 Springer Science+Busine

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,Evaluating the Firm’s Environmental Hazardousness: Methodology,s project, the chapter details the empirical procedure used for calculating industrial hazardousness maps. This methodology measures the sum of potential hazard in a given geographical area, using an algorithm to extend the influence of the potential hazard of each industry to the surrounding area,

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The Case of Bolivia,ell as presenting aggregated risk results at the departmental level, it provides a more detailed analysis for the municipalities of Santa Cruz and Sucre. The results show high levels of both vulnerability and industrial hazards, especially in the departments with highest economic development. The ch

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The Case of Argentina,er is divided into three parts: The first part provides background information about industrial hazardousness in Argentina, while the second one studies the distribution of risk in the country, using the department or municipality as the unit of analysis. The third part presents a case study of the

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The Case of Spain,data collected allowed us to calculate a risk index for the whole of Spain and to develop more detailed spatial analysis for two specific case studies, the cities of Madrid and Seville. The risk index at the national level identifies the Spanish towns at greatest risk from the combined factors of so

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Concluding Remarks,imitations are stated as well as directions for further research suggested. The chapter emphasises that on the whole, the results obtained have confirmed the usefulness of our conceptual and methodological tools to assess the risk due to environmental deterioration to which the population of a given

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icators in a geographic information system (GIS) allows researchers to assess the potential risk to which a certain area and its population are subject as a result of the environmental deterioration caused by co-located industrial activity.978-94-017-8211-1978-94-007-2742-7

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Marijke van Haeften-van Dijk,Petra Boersmaity and/or hazardousness. This analysis constitutes the first step towards the management of risk and may help in the design of preventive measures. However, solving these problems implies that decision making entities must be capable of acting on the causes of risk.