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Showing posts with label risk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label risk. Show all posts
7.23.2013

Seismic externalities

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Injection-Induced Earthquakes William L. Ellsworth Abstract: Earthquakes in unusual locations have become an important topic of discussio...
11.02.2012

Should people living in high-risk locations get relief when they are hit by natural disasters?

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National survey evidence on disasters and relief: Risk beliefs, self-interest, and compassion W. Kip Viscusi, Richard J. Zeckhauser Abst...
8.21.2011

Weekend links @ the Adventure Journal

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Some links from the adventure journal  that I found and liked during my continuing ascent (descent?) into the blogosphere: - The climate o...
7.26.2011

Arctic sea ice on track for a new record minimum

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One of the research areas in which I work is how humans deal with new information about risk, especially climate risk. Thus I was very inter...
6.11.2011

Trends in weather deaths

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Jesse pointed me to this opinion piece in the WSJ about weather related deaths in the US, thinking I should comment on it.  I have lots of c...
2.01.2011

Weather-driven pirate risk maps

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A variety of sources point out that Naval Research Labs' James Hansen* has come up with a piracy-risk model that takes as its two maj...
6.17.2010

Risk Denialism and the Costs of Prevention

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Sol's posts about the BP oil spill ( here and here ) got me thinking a little bit about the interplay between denialism and risk and h...
6.06.2010

1980

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This is surreal to me. This is an excerpt from an article in the New York Times on April 12, 1980 . I repeat. 1980 . Thirty years ago. Th...
6.05.2010

(Oil spill & windmill) x (technology & management)

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The BP spill is tragic, but it's gotten me learning about oil drilling technology and history. Some nice sites by the NYTimes, which I t...