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Improving Decisions in the Most Misunderstood Industry
This book examines the behavior of individuals at risk and insurance industry policy makers involved in selling, buying and regulation....
Strategies for Reaction and Response
Events ranging from Hurricane Katrina to the global economic crisis have taught businesspeople an unforgettable lesson: if you donโt plan for โext...
Public Policy Lessons
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Managing Large-Scale Risks in a New Era of Catastrophes
Innovative, long-term strategies for reducing vulnerability to large-scale natural disasters and for providing financial support for disaster victims....
Why We Underprepare for Disasters
"The Ostrich Paradox boldly addresses a key question of our time: Why are we humans so poor at dealing with disastrous risks, and what can we humans d...
Managing Large-scale Risks in a New Era of Catastrophes
The Status and Role of Insurance Against Natural Disasters in the United States
This book considers the effectiveness of insurance coverage for low-probability, high-consequence events such as natural disastersรขโฌ"and how insura...
How Companies Are Coping with Disruption
A profound and insightful look at how company leaders prepare for and respond to shocks and crises that threaten their business. Successful firms stra...
A New Approach to Managing Risk
Based on the research that has been conducted at Wharton Risk Management Center over the past five years on catastrophic risk. Covers a hot topic in t...
Chile's Extraordinary Comeback from Disaster
On February 27, 2010, Chile was rocked by a violent earthquake five hundred times more powerful than the one that hit Haiti just six weeks prior. The ...
An Integrative Perspective
The long-awaited textbook on the developing field of decision sciences. This book compares different types of decision making and emphasises the link ...
Implications for Federal Policy
Can insurance be used as a means to obtain compliance with environmental policy? Answering this question requires examination of a broad mosaic of aca...
The Weakest Link: Managing Risk Through Interdependent Strategies
Networks increase interdependencies, which creates challenges for managing risks. This is especially apparent in areas such as security and enterprise...
Reducing Technological Risk Through Diligence
In the aftermath of catastrophes, it is common to find prior indicators, missed signals, and dismissed alerts that, had they been recognized and appro...
This book explores siting dilemmas - situations in which an "authority" (e.g., Congress, a consortium of utilities) deems it in the best interest of s...
International Comparisons
The Siting of Liquefied Energy Gas Facilities in Four Countries
Redirecting America's High-level Nuclear Waste Policies
Time is both the ally of high-level nuclear waste (HLNW) managers and the enemy. It is the ally because the radioactivity in elements and isotopes dec...
Proceedings of the International Conference on Transportation, Storage and Disposal of Hazardous Materials,...
"This book examines the behavior of individuals at risk, insurance industry decision makers and policy makers involved in the selling, buying, and reg...
The Role of Concern
The Role of Emotions
Redirecting America's Highlevel Nuclear Waste Policies
When Congress passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, it directed the Department of Energy to locate, study, license, and develop a deep undergro...
Economic Incentives for Reducing Future Losses
In the aftermath of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Nat. Inst. of Standards & Technology has taken a key role in enhancing the nation's homeland se...