The economics of railway safety

AW Evans - Research in transportation economics, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the statistics and economics of railway safety in Great Britain, the
European Union and the United States, together with some results for Finland and Japan. In …

Valuing mortality risk reductions from environmental, transport, and health policies: A global meta‐analysis of stated preference studies

H Lindhjem, S Navrud, NA Braathen… - Risk Analysis: An …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
We conduct, to our knowledge, the first global meta‐analysis (MA) of stated preference (SP)
surveys of mortality risk valuation. The surveys ask adults their willingness to pay (WTP) for …

Valuing mortality risk in the time of COVID-19

JK Hammitt - Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2020 - Springer
In evaluating the appropriate response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a key parameter is the
rate of substitution between wealth and mortality risk, conventionally summarized as the …

ALARP—What does it really mean?

M Jones-Lee, T Aven - Reliability Engineering & System Safety, 2011 - Elsevier
This paper examines the requirements that might reasonably be regarded as being implied
by the ALARP principle. The principle stipulates that those responsible should reduce risks …

Weighting and valuing quality-adjusted life-years using stated preference methods: preliminary results from the Social Value of a QALY Project.

R Baker, I Bateman, C Donaldson… - Health technology …, 2010 - researchonline.lshtm.ac.uk
OBJECTIVES: To identify characteristics of beneficiaries of health care over which relative
weights should be derived and to estimate relative weights to be attached to health gains …

Estimating the intangible victim costs of violent crime

P Dolan, G Loomes, T Peasgood… - British Journal of …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Current estimates of the intangible costs of violent crime, such as the pain, grief and
suffering experienced by victims, are not very robust. This paper sets out the different …

Critical trust: understanding lay perceptions of health and safety risk regulation

J Walls, N Pidgeon, A Weyman… - Health, risk & …, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
The binary opposition of trusting or not trusting is inadequate to understand the often
ambiguous and contradictory ideas people possess about risk regulators, particularly when …

Critical review of methodology and application of risk ranking for prioritisation of food and feed related issues, on the basis of the size of anticipated health impact

HJ Van der Fels‐Klerx, ED Van Asselt… - EFSA Supporting …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This study aimed to critically review methodologies for ranking of risks related to feed/food
safety and nutritional hazards, on the basis of their anticipated human health impact. An …

The value of mortality risk reductions in Delhi, India

S Bhattacharya, A Alberini, ML Cropper - Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2007 - Springer
We interviewed commuters in Delhi, India, to estimate their willingness to pay (WTP) to
reduce their risk of dying in road traffic accidents in three scenarios that mirror the …

[图书][B] The GM debate: Risk, politics and public engagement

T Horlick-Jones, J Walls, G Rowe, N Pidgeon… - 2007 - taylorfrancis.com
This book tells the story of an unprecedented experiment in public participation: the
government-sponsored debate on the possible commercialization of 'GM'crops in the UK …