This book presents a framework, the Urban Risk Assessment, for assessing disaster and climate risk in cities which is … intended to assist in decision-making, urban planning, and designing risk management programs. The approach seeks to strengthen … coherence and consensus within and across cities in understanding and planning for risk from natural disasters and climate …

The Uncertainties of Disease -- 3 Doing Something about the Weather -- 4 Animal Risk for a Modern Age -- PART II …: INDUSTRIALIZING RISK -- 5 Railroads, or Why Risk in a System Is Different -- 6 The Professionalization of Safety -- 7 The Safety …-First Movement -- PART III: RISK IN A CONSUMER SOCIETY -- 8 Negotiating Automobile Risk -- 9 What's a Gun Good For? -- 10 Risk as …

connecting political, security and economic ecologies. Connecting models were designed considering “trust” and “risk” as applied …

regression model are applied. Findings The results reveal that the presence of WDOCBs favorably influences on firm’s risk and … WDOCB on the ESG-performance relationship leads to increased risk-adjusted and buy-and-hold abnormal returns and reduced … firm risks, measured by both volatility of returns and systematic risk. Originality/value The research contributes to the …

, can impact people's risk tolerance in decision making. Design/methodology/approach – In this paper the authors developed … perceptions of public scrutiny and influence their risk preferences. Specifically, the results reveal that individuals who are … recipients of high-status labels tend to choose lower risk decision options compared to their peers. Research limitations …