RISK-DISASTER-AND-INSURANCE

Uncertainty: a guide to dealing with uncertainty in quantitative risk and policy analysis Millett Granger Morgan, Max Henrion, Mitchell Small 0 Resenhas Cambridge University Press, 1990 - 332 páginas This book explain the ways in which uncertainty is an important factor in the problems of risk and policy analysis

Environmental risk assessment: quantitative measures, anthropogenic influences, human impact Ian Lerche, Walter Glässer 1 Resenha Birkhäuser, 2006 - 343 páginas This book deals with environmental and human risk problems caused by contamination from the perspective of real world applications with quantitative procedures. It includes risk methods for the discussion of environmental problems where data are sparse or fuzzy, as well as incorporating political, social and economic considerations in determining directions of remediation solutions for environmental contaminant problems. Furthermore, it highlights the impact of contaminants on human health, in some cases ultimately leading to death, as well as the anthropogenic exacerbation of natural processes.

Comparing environmental risks: tools for setting government priorities J. Clarence Davies 0 Resenhas Resources for the Future, 1996 - 157 páginas The budgetary squeeze occurring at all levels of government in the 1990s has made it obvious that the nation cannot address every existing and prospective environmental problem. Criticism of current programs focuses especially on the low levels of risk posed by many of the problems being subjected to regulation while more important problems may go unaddressed. Comparative risk assessment is increasingly advanced as the appropriate means for setting realistic priorities. Comparing Environmental Risks: Tools for Setting Government Priorities illuminates the increased efforts of the executive branch of the federal government to use risk assessment in its decisionmaking. While the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency pioneered the use of comparative risk assessment (CRA) in its programs and routinely uses risk assessments of individual pollutants, the agency has not made use of CRA throughout the full range of its activities. Nor has any other federal agency. The President's Office of Science and Technology Policy has sought the assistance of Resources for the Future in formulating methods to make broader use of CRA throughout the executive branch. RFF's Center for Risk Management commissioned background papers from leading experts on CRA for presentation at a meeting with federal regulatory officials in February 1994. Comparing Environmental Risks presents the papers of this workshop, revised to include input from the meeting. The book outlines the evolution of CRA and its surrounding controversy, summarizes lessons learned from past efforts at implementation, and identifies new ways for using CRA. Representing the state of the art on programmatic CRA, the methodological analyses andpractical recommendations contained in Comparing Environmental Risks will be invaluable to all public officials and other analysts faced with

Comparative risk assessment and environmental decision making Igor Linkov, Abou Bakr Ramadan 0 Resenhas Springer, 2004 - 436 páginas Decision making in environmental projects is typically a complex and confusing process characterized by trade-offs between socio-political, environmental, and economic impacts. Comparative Risk Assessment (CRA) is a methodology applied to facilitate decision making when various activities compete for limited resources. CRA has become an increasingly accepted research tool and has helped to characterize environmental profiles and priorities on the regional and national level. CRA may be considered as part of the more general but as yet quite academic field of multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA). Considerable research in the area of MCDA has made available methods for applying scientific decision theoretical approaches to multi-criteria problems, but its applications, especially in environmental areas, are still limited. The papers show that the use of comparative risk assessment can provide the scientific basis for environmentally sound and cost-efficient policies, strategies, and solutions to our environmental challeng

Assessment and management of environmental risks: cost-efficient methods and applications Igor Linkov, José Palma-Oliveira 0 Resenhas Springer, 2001 - 440 páginas The management of environmental contamination requires decision makers to weigh existing risks against the potential effects of implementing environmental policies, considering both the benefits and disruptions that may result from different courses of action. The present book represents an major advance in the development and application of cost-efficient methods of risk assessment, especially under circumstances of budget constraints and in developing countries. The book explores the potential of risk assessment to act as a unified and unifying technique for addressing a wide range of environmental problems. A wide range of issues are discussed, ranging from specific and local studies through global decision and management frameworks. The approaches developed range from specific methods through widely applied public policies. The book shows that the use of risk assessment can provide the scientific basis for environmentally sound, cost-effective policies, strategies and solutions to our environmental challenges.

Handbook of environmental risk assessment and management Peter Calow 0 Resenhas Wiley-Blackwell, 1998 - 590 páginas At the heart of environmental protection is risk assessment: the likelihood of pollution from accidents; the likelihood of problems from normal and abnormal operation of industrial processes; the likely impacts associated with new synthetic chemicals; and so on. Currently, risk assessment has been very much in the news--the risks from BSE and E. coli, and the public perception of risks from nuclear waste, etc. This new publication explains how scientific methodologies are used to assess risk from human activities and the resultant objects and wastes, on people and the environment. Understanding such risks supplies crucial information--to frame legislation, manage major habitats, businesses and industries, and create development programmes. Unique in combining the science of risk assessment with the development of management strategies. Covers science and social science (politics, economics, psychology) aspects. Very timely - risk assessment lies at the heart of decision making in various topical environmental questions (BSE, Brent Spar, nuclear waste).

The government of risk: understanding risk regulation regimes Christopher Hood, Henry Rothstein, Robert Baldwin 3 Resenhas Oxford University Press US, 2001 - 217 páginas Why does regulation vary so dramatically from one area to another? Why are vast sums spent on controlling some risks but not on others? Is there any logic to the techniques we use in risk regulation? In this work, Hood explores these crucial questions explored. It looks at a number of risk regulations' regimes, considers the respects in which they differ, and examines how these differences can be justified.

Does The Gulf Of Mexico Oil Spill Mean That The U.S. Is Headed For Gas Lines, Higher Food Prices And A Broken Economy? The Economic Collapse June 23, 2010 As the Gulf of Mexico oil spill crisis enters a third month, the economic impact of this environmental nightmare is starting to become clearer.  The truth is that the "oil volcano" spewing massive amounts of oil into the Gulf has absolutely decimated the seafood, tourism and real estate industries along the Gulf coast.  Not only that, but energy industry insiders are now warning that the chilling effect that this crisis will have on offshore drilling could precipitate a new 1970s-style energy crisis.  Considering the fact that the U.S. economy was already on incredibly shaky ground even before the oil leak, the last thing we needed was a disaster of this magnitude.  But it has happened, and the reality is that the long-term effects of this crisis are potentially going to reverberate for decades.  The American people certainly have a negative view on the impact that this oil spill will have on the economy.  According to a new poll, about eight out of every 10 Americans expect the oil spill to damage the U.S. economy and drive up the cost of gas and food. But is a new 1970s-style energy crisis really a possibility? Could we actually soon be headed for blackouts and gas lines? Well, former Shell executive John Hofmeister believes that is exactly what we are headed for…. "Within a decade I predict the energy abyss looks like brownouts, blackouts and gas lines."  In fact, Hofmeister claims that some of his fellow energy industry insiders expect things to be even worse than he is projecting in the years ahead. Why? Hofmeister says that the problem is the U.S. government…. "Our federal government, when it comes to energy and the environment, is dysfunctional, it's broken, and it's unfixable in its current form." Without a doubt, the oil spill will have a chilling effect

Iran, BP and the CIA LAWRENCE S. WITTNER Counterpunch June 23, 2010 The offshore oil drilling catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico brought to us by BP has overshadowed its central role over the past century in fostering some other disastrous events. BP originated in 1908 as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company-a British corporation whose name was changed to the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company two decades later.  With exclusive rights to extract, refine, export, and sell Iran's rich oil resources, the company reaped enormous profits.  Meanwhile, it shared only a tiny fraction of the proceeds with the Iranian government.  Similarly, although the company's British personnel lived in great luxury, its Iranian laborers endured lives of squalor and privation. In 1947, as Iranian resentment grew at the giant oil company's practices, the Iranian parliament called upon the Shah, Iran's feudal potentate, to renegotiate the agreement with Anglo-Iranian.  Four years later, Mohammed Mossadeq, riding a tide of nationalism, became the nation's prime minister.  As an enthusiastic advocate of taking control of Iran's oil resources and using the profits from them to develop his deeply impoverished nation, Mossadeq signed legislation, passed unanimously by the country's parliament, to nationalize the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. The British government was horrified.  Eager to assist the embattled corporation, it imposed an economic embargo on Iran and required its technicians to leave the country, thus effectively blocking the Iranian government from exporting its oil.  When this failed to bring the Iranians to heel, the British government sought to arrange for the overthrow of Mossadeq-first through its own efforts and, later (when Britain's diplomatic mission was expelled from Iran for its subversive activities), through the efforts of the U.S. government.  But President Truman refused to commit the CIA to this venture. To the delight of Anglo-Iranian, it received

Remedial Targets Methodology - Hydrogeological Risk assessment for Land Contamination (2006)

A History of Moral Hazard David Rowell and Luke Connelly (University of Queensland)d.rowell@uq.edu.au The term 'moral hazard' was initially developed 150 years ago within the insurance-industry literature, to describe a positive relationship between insurance and a claim. It has been asserted that the concept of moral hazard spontaneously evolved with insurance. However, the earliest insurance contracts predate the first recorded use of the term moral hazard by almost 500 years. When interpreted literately, the phrase moral hazard can evoke a strong rhetorical tone, which has readily been used by a variety of stakeholders, most notably insurers, to influence public attitudes to claimers and claiming. In contrast, the discipline of economics has treated moral hazard as an idiom which 'in fact, has little to do with morality' to analyse the role that incentives play in a broad range of principal-agent relationships. This paper seeks to explore the underlying historical reasons for this impasse by reviewing four distinct and disparate literatures: theological, probabilistic, insurance and economic. The theological literature contains a rich discussion of the liceity of insurance that reveals a medieval concept of providence, which had profound implications for the conceptual development of moral hazard. The emergence of a probability literature from the field of mathematics also contributed to the theory of risk, (e.g. Bernoulli's resolution of the St Petersburg paradox) which were precursors for conceptual development of moral hazard. The eventual genesis of moral hazard in The Practice of Fire Underwriting in 1865 was followed by some ambiguity in the interpretation of this term. A careful inspection of the early insurance literature suggests that the term moral hazard was used pejoratively to also describe the related actuarial process of adverse selection, i.e., morally suspect people were observed to purchase insurance with a view to committing fraud. The insuranc

Global strategies of clean environment, safe earth, disaster management, sustainable development and quality life: national and international obligations and priorities N. P. Rao 0 Resenhas Atlantic Publishers & Distributors, 1998 - 320 páginas The Efforts Made At The International Level By The United Nations Agencies On Environ¬Mental Destination Problems And Saving The Earth From The Natural And Man-Made Disasters Are Well-Known. Besides, The Proclamation Of The International Decade For Natural Disaster Reduction And Appoint¬Ing Inter-Governmental Panels On Climatic Change, Etc., Show That All Are Concerned With The Safety Of Environment And Earth And Are Seized With The Attendant Problems Discussed Herein And Incorporated In Agenda-21 As Action Programme For Implementation By All Concerned.At The National Level Agencies Such As The Central And The State Pollution Control Boards And Other Ngos Are Involved In Pollution Abatement Programmes. Already The Global Warming Has Led To Rise In Atmospheric Temperatures. So, The Battle Is Already On At The National And International Level To Ensure Clean Environment And Safe Earth For Sustained Development And Better And Healthier Quality Of Life. At A Time When We Are Fighting Against These Problems At A Global Level, We Are Confronted At The Domestic Level With Such Calamities As The Latur Earthquake, And The East Coastal Cyclones, Typhoons, Hurricanes, Blizzards Causing Loss Of Life And Property Resulting In Untold Sufferings Mentioned In This Book.The Object Of This Book Is To Focus Attention Of All Governmental And Non-Governmental Agencies Both At The National And Inter¬National Level (Including Un, World Bank, Undp, Uncef Etc.), And At The Local Level (The Pollution Control Boards, Urban Plan¬Ning Authorities, Municipal, Industries, Health, Welfare And Safety Departments), On The Importance Of The Problems Discussed In This Book, Which Is Intended For Them. The Book Is Timely And Topical. « Menos

GESTÃO DE RISCO: ANÁLISE DA UTILIZAÇÃO DE DERIVATIVOS FINANCEIROS PELAS COOPERATIVAS AGROPECUÁRIAS DO ESTADO DO PARANÁ Régio Marcio Toesca Gimenes, Miguel Angel Uribe Opazo, Claudemir José de Souza, Fátima Maria Pegorini Gimenes Resumo Este artigo tem como objetivo investigar o gerenciamento do risco em uma amostra de vinte e nove cooperativas agropecuárias localizadas no estado do Paraná. Na ultima década estudos relacionados ao uso de instrumentos de gerenciamento de risco, como derivativos, tornaram-se freqüentes, persistindo ainda muitas dúvidas em relação aos custos e benefícios dessa utilização. As cooperativas estão inseridas em um ambiente na qual a incerteza está presente e com ela o risco, destacando-se as oscilações de produção e preços das commodities agrícolas. Desta forma, decorre a necessidade de um gerenciamento de risco eficaz, em busca de uma estratégia adequada de hedge que maximize o tradeoff entre risco e retorno. Quanto à metodologia adotada, utilizou-se os procedimentos de uma pesquisa descritiva com a aplicação de questionário a uma amostra de gestores financeiros das cooperativas agropecuárias que compõem o universo do estudo. As evidências sugerem que os gestores financeiros das cooperativas agropecuárias gerenciam com derivativos as exposições cambiais, seguidas pela de taxa de juros, de commodities e de patrimônio, tendo como maior preocupação os aspectos institucionais do que os econômico-financeiros, apesar da volatilidade dos mercados brasileiros. Texto Completo: PDF

EL ESTUDIO DE LOS RIESGOS CON ORIGEN HIDROLÓGICO EN EL SU-RESTE DE LA PENÍNSULA IBÉRICA. ENFOQUE GEOGRÁFICO Y PLANI-FICACIÓN TERRITORIAL. Carmelo Conesa García, R. García Lorenzo, W. E. Brinckmann, R. y García Marin, A. Morales Pérez Resumo El presente artículo muestra el estado de la cuestión en el análisis de los riesgos hidrológicos de una región natural española especialmente productora de situaciones de peligro: el Sureste de la Península Ibérica. Los graves impactos que este tipo de peligros naturales tienen en la economía, la sociedad y el medio ambiente de esta región hacen que el enfoque geográfico revista aquí especial importancia en el estudio de sus riesgos derivados, particularmente en relación con la evaluación y gestión de los mismos, y su indudable implicación en las políticas de planificación territorial. Ésta es una de las regiones más áridas de Europa, caracterizada por lluvias extraordinarias de alta intensidad horaria capaces provocar abultados caudales y desbordamientos de cauces, pero también por la instalación de núcleos densos de poblamiento en sus áreas litorales y de vega. El escaso, o en ocasiones desafortunado, diálogo entre me-dio natural y hombre ha hecho de ésta una zona de notable interés para gran número de investigadores en temas de riesgos asociados a fenómenos hidrológicos extremos. El carácter efímero de las corrientes y los efectos hidráulicos de las infraestructuras lineales y obras de drenaje complican la estimación de los cau-dales de avenida, aumentando dicho grado de complejidad. Aun cuando existen ya varios modelos, pro-gramas y proyectos enfocados a estas cuestiones todavía falta un mayor conocimiento sobre este tipo de procesos de riesgo, particularmente en relación con la generación de áreas inundables, para la que se ne-cesita una información cartográfica base de mayor detalle y la incorporación de factores hasta ahora muy poco considerados como los hidromorfológic

Crime de Poluição - Uma Resposta do Direito Penal aos Novos Riscos - Biblioteca de Estudos Avançados em Direito Penal e Processual Penal - Coords.: Luiz Regis Prado e Adel El TasseAlessandra Rapassi Mascarenhas Prado, 348 pgs. Publicado em: 1/4/2010 Editora: Juruá EditoraISBN: 978853622923-2Preço: R$ 79,90 * Desconto não cumulativo com outras promoções e P.A.P.               ÁREA(S) Direito PenalClique aqui e veja os últimos lançamentos da mesma área. SINOPSE"... A autora, embora entenda a necessidade de legitimação do Direito Penal para que possa enfrentar os problemas recentes, busca ao longo de seu trabalho, conciliar o direito liberal e garantista, com os ajustes necessários para atender às novas demandas. Por isto mesmo, afirma que há um 'grande desafio do Direito Penal Contemporâneo, que não pode deixar de assegurar as garantias e liberdades e individuais, mas, de outro lado, deve estender-se, quando necessário, para impedir lesões que podem assumir proporções catastróficas'... ... A autora põe o foco de seus estudos sobre o crime de poluição (um dos maiores impactos negativos sobre o meio ambiente, como se refere), analisando, com rara dedicação, a multiplicidade de aspectos existentes ao redor do tema, motivo pelo qual apresenta um trabalho único no Brasil... ... A poluição é apresentada ao leitor como fenômeno que assume características específicas em cada país e é altamente dependente de sua situação econômica. Lembra, por exemplo, que o processo de industrialização no Brasil apenas ganhou expressão na década de cinquenta, recorrendo-se a máquinas e equipamentos sucatados e tecnologia ultrapassada dos países industrializados. Este fato, no entanto constitui apenas uma faceta dos fatores econômicos que contribuíram para atividades poluidoras, como destaca, já que postos em conflito desenvolvimento econômico e preservação ambiental, o país durante muitos anos, optou pela primeira vertente

The politics of food Marianne E. Lien, Brigitte Nerlich 1 Resenha Berg Publishers, 2004 - 244 páginas Is shopping for food really a political act? Why is it that, in a world with enough food for everyone, more people than ever go hungry? Why did the French resistance against genetically modified foods become a fight against McDonalds? Why did the foot-and-mouth epidemic in the UK become a problem for consumers? Capable of connecting human bodies to abstract nations, and techno-science to moral concerns, food has become one of the most contested fields of our time. It is high on the political agenda throughout the world. With disease, contamination, famine, hunger and imbalanced food markets all unfortunate realities, a book that interrogates the politics of food is long overdue. From the BSE outbreak in the 1990s through to cultural taboos and the genetic modification of produce and livestock, this timely book raises provocative questions about how we relate to food in the 21st century. Recent food scandals and genetically modified organism controversies have shattered the idea that 'food is food' as we have always known it, and exposed fundamental dilemmas related to risk and control. Taking as its starting point the premise that food is politicized in arenas not commonly thought of as political, The Politics of Food explores issues surrounding the development of global food markets in underdeveloped nations and addresses recent events that have had a profound impact on how consumers feel about what they eat. The epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease that swept through the UK in 2001 spawned a series of questions concerning the real costs of cheap food. What lessons have been learned? And how are food choices linked to the politics of food markets? With globalization, food has increasingly become entangled in webs of political significance. Through ethnographic case studies, this book reveals how food has come to serve a key role in political resistance, grassroots

Offshore Oil and Gas Development in Northwest Russia: Consequences and Implications Original title: Offshore Oil and Gas Development in Northwest Russia: Consequences and Implications Report number: 2007 Authors: Nina Lesikhina, Irina Rudaya, Anna Kireeva, Olga Krivonos, Elena Kobets Publisher: Bellona Format: ISBN: ISSN: Price: 0 Download the report: Conclusion for Oil and Gas Report (0.05MB) Chapter 5. Environmental impact of oil and gas activity in the Arctic (1.23MB) Chapter 4. Oil and gas accidents prevention and liquidation (0.34MB) Chapter 3. Environmental risks when extracting and exporting oil and gas (0.79MB) Chapter 2. Transporting oil and gas in Northwest Russia (0.49MB) Chapter 1. Oil and gas resources on the Arctic Continental shelf in Russia (1.06MB) Introduction for Oil and Gas Report (0.03MB)

The Journal of World Energy Law & Business Advance Access originally published online on March 15, 2010 The Journal of World Energy Law & Business 2010 3(2):140-165; doi:10.1093/jwelb/jwq002 This Article Full Text Full Text (PDF) Audios Audios All Versions of this Article: 3/2/140    most recent jwq002v2 jwq002v1 Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to My Personal Archive Download to citation manager Request Permissions Citing Articles Scopus Links Citing Articles via CrossRef Google Scholar Articles by Wagner, J. Articles by Armstrong, K. Social Bookmarking          What's this? © The Author 2010. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the AIPN. All rights reserved. Managing environmental and social risks in international oil and gas projects: Perspectives on compliance Jay Wagner and Kit Armstrong* The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below.    1. Introduction   Background Oil and gas exploration and production (E&P) and associated energy infrastructure projects take place across the globe in a diversity of environmental and socio-economic settings from the Arctic to the humid tropics. Energy industry activities are also inherently complex and risky. They involve a variety of environment, health and safety (EHS) and social issues that need to be carefully managed alongside geologic, political and economic risk factors. Worldwide, stakeholders are demanding ever-higher levels of environmental and social performance from the industry. In addition to EHS concerns, a wide range of social issues, such as human rights, revenue management, ethics, governance and corruption, have become increasingly significant in terms of both perception and conduct of industry activities. As a result, oil and gas companies are being exposed

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