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A disaster risk management performance index

Carreño, Martha; Cardona, Omar; Barbat, Alex - In: Natural Hazards 41 (2007) 1, pp. 1-20

The Risk Management Index, RMI, proposed in this paper, brings together a group of indicators that measure risk management performance and effectiveness. These indicators reflect the organizational, development, capacity and institutional actions taken to reduce vulnerability and losses in a...

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Assessment of the sunk-cost effect in clinical decision-making

Braverman, Jennifer A.; Blumenthal-Barby, J.S. - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 1, pp. 186-192

Despite the current push toward the practice of evidence-based medicine and comparative effectiveness research, clinicians' decisions may be influenced not only by evidence, but also by cognitive biases. A cognitive bias describes a tendency to make systematic errors in certain circumstances...

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Integrating the effects of flood experience on risk perception with responses to changing climate risk

Lawrence, Judy; Quade, Dorothee; Becker, Julia - In: Natural Hazards 74 (2014) 3, pp. 1773-1794

Flood management decision-makers face significant challenges as the climate changes. The perceptions of those affected by floods are critical to the successful implementation of adaptation responses; risk perceptions are affected by how information is communicated and, in turn, perceptions...

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THE IMPACT OF REGULATION ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW PRODUCTS IN THE FOOD INDUSTRY

Menrad, Klaus; Blind, Knut - Fachgebiet für Marketing und management Nachwachsender … - 2004

Paper prepared for presentation at the 8th ICABR International Conference on Agricultural Biotechnology: International Trade and Domestic Production Ravello (Italy), July 8 to 11th, 2004

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Sustainability in businesses, corporate social responsibility, and accounting standards: An empirical study

Akisik, Orhan; Gal, Graham - In: International Journal of Accounting and Information … 19 (2011) September, pp. 304-324

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship of sustainable development in businesses with corporate social responsibility (CSR) and accounting, in 53 developed and emerging economies over the period 1997-2008. Design/methodology/approach – The authors test the...

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Sustainability reporting and reputation risk management: an Australian case study

Hogan, Janine; Lodhia, Sumit - In: International Journal of Accounting and Information … 19 (2011) September, pp. 267-287

sustainability reporting to respond to reputation risk arising from proposed regulation. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses … understanding what motivates sustainability reporting, and how proposed regulation could lead to a decrease in the quantity but … increase in the quality of sustainability reporting. In addition, “honesty” is revealed as a potential RRM strategy …

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"In the midst of economic disaster, can the USA still care about green accounting? .... Which is more important a sustainable economy or a sustainable environment?"

Crawford, Constance - In: International Journal of Green Economics 4 (2010) 4, pp. 327-332

The Obama administration has called for a heightened amount of transparency in financial reporting culminating from the recent debacle on Wall Street. Interestingly, as our economy wavers between recession and or depression, the worldwide economy is focused on gross domestic product or GDP which...

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Public management and community in rethinking and structuring sustainability: a two-city (USA and Ukraine) comparative analysis

Slava, Svitlana; Condrey, Stephen E. - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 13 (2010) 3, pp. 243-266

Despite a significant pool of sustainable development literature that appeared during the last decade, the term remains unclear. This study involved a theoretical analysis of definitions of sustainable development to identify the weights of different components, to assess what meanings are...

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The green economy and job creation: inclusion of people with disabilities in the USA

Bruyère, Susanne; Filiberto, David - In: International Journal of Green Economics 7 (2013) 3, pp. 257-275

The percentage of total employment associated with green goods and services has increased in the USA over the past several years, presenting employment opportunities in a number of related emerging fields. As employment options arise to provide green goods and services, people with disabilities...

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Too big and too interconnected to fail: historical and ethical analysis of sustainability risk to the US financial system

Santoro, Michael A.; Strauss, Ronald J. - In: International Journal of Sustainable Economy 4 (2012) 4, pp. 356-369

to the sustainability of the entire financial system and to public welfare. We argue that it is essential to understand … individual and collective moral hazards, the overall governance framework that protects the sustainability of the financial …

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