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RISK MANAGEMENT
While the field of risk analysis has grown dramatically over the past several decades, there remains a substantial gap between theoretical advances in risk and uncertainty assessment and effective application to real world policy. Current research at Resources for the Future works to bridge this gap, focusing on the methodology of quantifying and communicating uncertainty, and its application to policy challenges.
Methodological research focuses on areas like structured expert judgment, modeling risk dependencies, and the use Bayesian belief nets to provide a graphical visualization of uncertainty and its linkages. These techniques are being applied to illuminate policy challenges related to air pollution regulation, food safety, invasive species, civil aviation, and the transmission of diseases from wildlife to humans.
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| PUBLICATIONS | | How Should We Tackle the Forest Fire Problem? | | Arun S. Malik | | Resources | Summer 2008 (169) | | | | Long-Term Risks and Short-Term Regulations: Modeling the Transition from Enhanced Oil Recovery to Geologic Carbon Sequestration | | Alexander Bandza, Shalini Vajjhala | | RFF Discussion Paper DP 08-29 | September 2008 | | | | Obstacles to Clear Thinking about Natural Disasters: Five Lessons for Policy | | Berger, A., C. Kousky, and R. Zeckhauser | | House and Home: Disasters, Cities, Public Policy | eds. J. M. Quigley and L. A. Rosenthal | Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Public Policy Press | 2008 | | | | The Role of Production Risk in Sustainable Land-Management Technology
Adoption in the Ethiopian Highlands | | Menale Kassie, Mahmud Yesuf, Gunnar Kohlin | | RFF Discussion Paper EfD 08-15 | April 2008 | | | | Regulating the Geological Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide
| | Elizabeth J. Wilson, M. Granger Morgan, Jay Apt, Mark Boner, Christopher Bunting, Mark A. De Figueiredo, Jenny Gode, Carlo C. Jaeger, David W. Keith, Sean T. McCoy, R. Stuart Haszeldine, Melisa F. Pollak, David M. Reiner, Edward S. Rubin, Asbjørn Tor | | Environmental Science & Technology | April 2008 | Vol. 42, No. 8 | pp. 2718-2722 | Related Discussion Paper 07-13 | | | | Climate Risk Management and Institutional Learning | | Hadi Dowlatabadi, Christina Cook | | RFF Discussion Paper 07-19 | August 2007 | | | | View All Publications |
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| EVENTS | | Nanotechnology and Nature: Can We Reduce Any Risks and Still Reap the Rewards? | | Wednesday, June 06, 2007 | | Achieving-Food_Supply-Global-Market | | Wednesday, June 07, 2006 | | Homeland Security, the Environment, and the Public | | Wednesday, October 05, 2005 | | Do the Media Raise too Many False Alarms About Technological Risks? | | Wednesday, May 05, 2004 |
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