ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Experimental research in psychology and economics indicates that depression causes heightened risk aversion. Previous research has documented robust links between seasonal variation in length of day, seasonal depression (known as seasonal affective disorder, or SAD), risk...

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The issue of climate change has attracted increasing business attention in the past decade. Whereas companies initially aimed primarily at influencing the policy debate, corporate strategies increasingly include economic responses. Existing classifications for climate change strategies however...

Today, climate change is among the most hotly-debated topics worldwide. The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), one of the three financial mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol open to developing and developed countries, was devised to assist in mitigation of global warming. Since it was initiated,...

In this paper I investigate an initiative that promotes systemic change: the Transition Model, which emerged from Totnes Transition Town in the UK in 2006. This model is premised on the need for communities to build resilience in the face of climate change and peak oil. It provides a framework...

Risk management is composed of three major elements viz., hazard identification, riskestimation and risk evaluation. The aim of hazard identification and risk estimation is toidentify the outcomes from risk, the magnitude of the associated con&quences from risk, andthe estimation of the...