Extreme events, by definition, cause much harm to people, property, and the natural world.
Sometimes they result from the vagaries of nature, as in the case of flood, earthquake, or …

White's questions were intriguing and, with Howard Kunreuther, we turned our attention to
natural hazards, attempting to relate behavior on flood plains and earthquake faults to …

Risk as we now know it is a wholly new phenomenon, the by-product of our ever more
complex and powerful technologies. In business, policy making, and in everyday life, it …

This study investigates the potential impacts of the proposed nuclear waste repository at
Yucca Mountain, Nevada, upon tourism, retirement and job‐related migration, and business …

This paper uses the 2003 Hong Kong Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
epidemic as a natural experiment to investigate how housing markets react to extreme …

The essay contrasts the scientific approach to analyzing and making decisions about risk
with the ways that ordinary people perceive and respond to risk. It highlights the importance …

A dynamic, discrete-time model is estimated in order to analyze the evolution of perceived
risk around a hazardous waste site and its effect on property values. Residential property …

Availability of information has increased rapidly over the past decades. Yet, information on
food safety is still considered problematic. Economists have extensively researched the …

In 2012, the media paid extra attention to lean finely textured beef (LFTB), an inexpensive
lean beef product extracted from low-valued fatty trim. The media's negative portrayal of …

Publisher Summary This chapter deals with the hazard perception and geography.
Perception plays a central role in explaining how risk, uncertainty, and values enter into the …