Search Results - "Risk Analysis"

Consideration of the Aerosol Transmission for COVID‐19 and Public Health by Anderson, Elizabeth L., Turnham, Paul, Griffin, John R., Clarke, Chester C.

“…This article analyzes the available evidence to address airborne, aerosol transmission of the SARS‐CoV‐2. We review and present three lines of evidence: case…”
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Trust and Risk Perception: A Critical Review of the Literature by Siegrist, Michael

“…Many studies in the field of risk perception and acceptance of hazards include trust as an explanatory variable. Despite this, the importance of trust has…”
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Risk Perception: Reflections on 40 Years of Research by Siegrist, Michael, Árvai, Joseph

“…Numerous studies and practical experiences with risk have demonstrated the importance of risk perceptions for people's behavior. In this narrative review, we…”
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The Impact of Trust and Risk Perception on the Acceptance of Measures to Reduce COVID‐19 Cases by Siegrist, Michael, Luchsinger, Larissa, Bearth, Angela

“…The SARS‐CoV‐2 virus that causes COVID‐19 has had a large impact on the lives of many people worldwide. At the peak of confirmed COVID‐19 cases during the…”
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Understanding Compound, Interconnected, Interacting, and Cascading Risks: A Holistic Framework by Pescaroli, Gianluca, Alexander, David

“…In recent years, there has been a gradual increase in research literature on the challenges of interconnected, compound, interacting, and cascading risks…”
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Public Acceptance of Fully Automated Driving: Effects of Social Trust and Risk/Benefit Perceptions by Liu, Peng, Yang, Run, Xu, Zhigang

“…Automated driving (AD) is one of the most significant technical advances in the transportation industry. Its safety, economic, and environmental benefits…”
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The Risk Perception Paradox-Implications for Governance and Communication of Natural Hazards by Wachinger, Gisela, Renn, Ortwin, Begg, Chloe, Kuhlicke, Christian

“…This article reviews the main insights from selected literature on risk perception, particularly in connection with natural hazards. It includes numerous case…”
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Validating Resilience and Vulnerability Indices in the Context of Natural Disasters by Bakkensen, Laura A., Fox‐Lent, Cate, Read, Laura K., Linkov, Igor

“…Due to persistent and serious threats from natural disasters around the globe, many have turned to resilience and vulnerability research to guide disaster…”
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The Future is Now: Reducing Psychological Distance to Increase Public Engagement with Climate Change by Jones, Charlotte, Hine, Donald W., Marks, Anthony D. G.

“…Many people perceive climate change as psychologically distant—a set of uncertain events that might occur far in the future, impacting distant places and…”
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The Economic Impact of Space Weather: Where Do We Stand? by Eastwood, J. P., Biffis, E., Hapgood, M. A., Green, L., Bisi, M. M., Bentley, R. D., Wicks, R., McKinnell, L.‐A., Gibbs, M., Burnett, C.

“…Space weather describes the way in which the Sun, and conditions in space more generally, impact human activity and technology both in space and on the ground…”
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Cognitive and Motivational Biases in Decision and Risk Analysis by Montibeller, Gilberto, von Winterfeldt, Detlof

“…Behavioral decision research has demonstrated that judgments and decisions of ordinary people and experts are subject to numerous biases. Decision and risk…”
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Developing a Broadly Applicable Measure of Risk Perception by Wilson, Robyn S., Zwickle, Adam, Walpole, Hugh

“…Decades of research identify risk perception as a largely intuitive and affective construct, in contrast to the more deliberative assessments of probability…”
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The Protective Action Decision Model: Theoretical Modifications and Additional Evidence by Lindell, Michael K., Perry, Ronald W.

“…The Protective Action Decision Model (PADM) is a multistage model that is based on findings from research on people's responses to environmental hazards and…”
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Evacuation from Natural Disasters: A Systematic Review of the Literature by Thompson, Rebecca R., Garfin, Dana Rose, Silver, Roxane Cohen

“…Research on evacuation from natural disasters has been published across the peer‐reviewed literature among several disparate disciplinary outlets and has…”
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The Psychological Distance of Climate Change by Spence, Alexa, Poortinga, Wouter, Pidgeon, Nick

“…Avoiding dangerous climate change is one of the most urgent social risk issues we face today and understanding related public perceptions is critical to…”
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Systemic Risks from Different Perspectives by Renn, Ortwin, Laubichler, Manfred, Lucas, Klaus, Kröger, Wolfgang, Schanze, Jochen, Scholz, Roland W., Schweizer, Pia‐Johanna

“…Systemic risks are characterized by high complexity, multiple uncertainties, major ambiguities, and transgressive effects on other systems outside of the…”
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A Review of Risk Perceptions and Other Factors that Influence Flood Mitigation Behavior by Bubeck, P., Botzen, W. J. W., Aerts, J. C. J. H.

“…In flood risk management, a shift can be observed toward more integrated approaches that increasingly address the role of private households in implementing…”
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Systems Resilience for Multihazard Environments: Definition, Metrics, and Valuation for Decision Making by Ayyub, Bilal M.

“…The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction reported that the 2011 natural disasters, including the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan,…”
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Human Factors Analysis for Maritime Accidents Based on a Dynamic Fuzzy Bayesian Network by Qiao, Weiliang, Liu, Yu, Ma, Xiaoxue, Liu, Yang

“…Human factors are widely regarded to be highly contributing factors to maritime accident prevention system failures. The conventional methods for human factor…”
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Joint optimization of mission abort and protective device selection policies for multistate systems by Zhao, Xian, Chai, Xiaofei, Sun, Jinglei, Qiu, Qingan

“…For safety‐critical systems such as aircrafts and submarines, mission abort is commonly deployed to enhance system survivability at the cost of reducing…”
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