responsiveness of mitigation to changes in adaptation decreases. Compared to a world without climate catastrophes, risk reduces the …This paper contributes to the normative literature on mitigation and adaptation by analyzing their optimal policy … balance in the context of climate catastrophic risk. The investigation enriches an integrated assessment model introducing the …

This paper contributes to the normative literature on mitigation and adaptation by framing the question of their … optimal policy balance in the context of catastrophic climate risk. The analysis uses the WITCH integrated assessment model … with a module that models the endogenous risk of experiencing an economic catastrophe if temperature increases above a …

incomes, education, innovation, and technology. But rapid globalization has also created concerns because the repercussions of … governments, businesses, and individuals can better manage risk in our contemporary world. Goldin and Mariathasan assert that the …. The recent financial crisis exemplifies the new form of systemic risk that will characterize the coming decades, and the …

Asia and the Pacific? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors - rising population exposure, greater …. In a regression analysis within a model of disaster risk determination, the most significant association is between the …

A variety of approaches have been employed to assess the importance of women’s education for their second- or third … others have included current education. A few have taken selection into account by modelling first-, second-, and higher …-order birth rates jointly, with a common unobserved factor. The corresponding education-fertility relationships among men, however …

on the operational risk management’s plan at the organization’s level. The increased dynamic of the problems with social …

Research on risk communication relates basic risk perception studies to the formulation of policies, the currently … evolving legislation dealing with hazards, the key issues of public involvement, the risk and environmental management. Risk … communication is a relatively new field based on a sociological approach. The discipline comes from risk perception studies …