Climate change poses an existential threat. Theoretical and empirical research suggest that
carbon pricing and green R&D support are the right tools, but their implementation can be …

International concern about climate change has led to the Kyoto Protocol, negotiated in
1997, which contains legally binding emission targets for industrialized countries to be …

This book updates and advances the theory of expected utility as applied to risk analysis
and financial decision making. Von Neumann and Morgenstern pioneered the use of …

Reflecting a decade's worth of changes, Human Safety and Risk Management, Second
Edition contains new chapters addressing safety culture and models of risk as well as an …

This book describes how to conduct a thorough, honest and complete environmental risk
assessment. Coverage includes the philosophy of uncertainty and the frailties of human …

Risk is an amazing concept. It has lingered on the fringe of academics for years, but only in
the past three decades has its broad application and examination become adopted. It …

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In a world of certainty, the design of environmental policy is relatively straightforward, and
boils down to maximizing the present value of the flow of social benefits minus costs. But the …

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Abstract The Precautionary Principle has provided the foundations for building a new risk
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