Pestizide ermöglichen der Landwirtschaft gesteigerte Erträge, sie bergen jedoch auch Risiken für die menschliche Gesundheit und die Umwelt. Um diese Risiken zu begrenzen, müssen sie in einem Risikobewertungsverfahren ihre Sicherheit nachweisen, bevor sie zugelassen werden können. Die...

In this paper we propose an approach to vulnerability called perceived vulnerability to downside risk. We argue that the other concepts of vulnerability, though partially adhering to the focus axiom, do not exclusively consider downside risks in their measures. The reason for this is that most...

Cardiovascular diseases could be characterized as a modern-day epidemic; they rank first on the list of diseases that lead to fatality percentages in both developed and developing countries. Greece holds one of the highest positions on the list of the most affected countries. On an international...

Economic evaluation of projects involving changes in mortality risk conventionally assumes that lives are statistical, i.e., that risks and policy-induced changes in risk are small and similar among a population. In reality, baseline mortality risks and policy-induced changes in risk often...

The law requiring a patient to be informed not just of the nature of a medical procedure but also its likely but subjectively significant risks, which blazed across the southerly firmament of patients' rights in 1992 with the decision of Rogers v Whitaker (1992) 175 CLR 479, appears to have now...

Scholars have long recognized the difficulties of communicating risk to the public. The rise of mobile gaming presents unprecedented opportunities for risk communicators to reach millions of potential users in engaging and potentially effective ways. Gamifying risk communication may help users...

We explore connections between the certainty equivalent return (CER) functional and theunderlying utility function. Curvature properties of the functional depend upon how utilityfunction attributes relate to Hyperbolic Absolute Risk Aversion (HARA) type utility functions.If the CER functional is...

We prove the existence of Pareto optimal allocations within sets of acceptableallocations when decision makers have probabilistic sophisticated variational pref-erences dened on random endowments in L1.[...]