Environmental risks may comprise the most important policy-related application of the economics of risk and uncertainty …. Many biases in risk assessment and regulation, such as the conservatism bias in risk assessment and the stringent … from warnings and risk information, such as Toxics Release Inventory data, consistent with Bayesian models. The fundamental …

ecosystems play in reducing risk to coastal communities now and with future sealevel rise. These analyses were used to inform … goal is to quantify the role that coastal habitat plays in reducing risk to people and shoreline under current conditions … more than double, and the total population would nearly triple in The Bahamas. Similarly, the population living along high-risk …

side and anthropogenic climate change on the other? This paper considers three main disaster risk factors - rising … intense climate-related natural disasters. In a regression analysis within a model of disaster risk determination for 1971 … implication is that climate mitigation and climate adaptation should form part of actions for disaster risk reduction. …