Integrating Insurance And Risk Management For Hazardous Wastes

Author : Howard Kunreuther,M.V. Rajeev Gowda
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789400921771

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Integrating Insurance and Risk Management for Hazardous Wastes by Howard Kunreuther,M.V. Rajeev Gowda Pdf

A challenge facing society today is how to develop a meaningful strategy for integrated hazardous waste management. Meeting this challenge was the principal motivation for the conference on "Risk Assessment and Risk Management Strategies for Hazardous Waste Storage and Disposal Prob lems," held at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania on May 18-19, 1988. The conference brought together representatives from the major interested parties - environmentalists, government, insurance, law, manufacturing, and the university community - who have been con cerned with the waste management process. The conference was the third cosponsored by the Wharton Center for Risk and Decision Processes addressing the knotty problem of hazardous waste. The first, held at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in 1985, examined the transportation, storage, and disposal of hazardous materials. It suggested steps that industry, insurers, and gov ernment agencies could take to improve the safety and efficiency with which hazardous materials are produced and controlled in industrialized societies. Specifically, it focused on the risk-management tools of insurance, com pensation, and regulation. xv xvi PREFACE The second conference, held at the Wharton School, University of Penn sylvania in 1986, concentrated on the role of insurance and compensation in environmental pollution problems. It characterized a set of problems related to the environmental pollution liability insurance crisis as presented by key interested parties and proposed a set of research needs for providing a sound basis for constructing socially appropriate measures to deal with the problem.

Author : Howard Kunreuther
Publisher : Springer
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : NWU:35556021452719

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Insuring and Managing Hazardous Risks--from Seveso to Bhopal and Beyond by Howard Kunreuther Pdf

Proceedings of the International Conference on Transportation, Storage and Disposal of Hazardous Materials,

Author : Paul R. Kleindorfer,Howard C. Kunreuther
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642830749

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Insuring and Managing Hazardous Risks: From Seveso to Bhopal and Beyond by Paul R. Kleindorfer,Howard C. Kunreuther Pdf

This book is the Proceedings of the International Conference on Trans portation, Storage, and Disposal of Hazardous Materials, which was held at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), 1-5 July 1985. The Conference brought together representatives of academia, business, and government from East and West to discuss the nature of current problems in the area of hazardous materials. An important objective of the Conference was to suggest steps that could be undertaken by industrial firms, the insurance industry, and govern ment agencies to improve the safety and efficiency with which hazar dous materials are produced and controlled in industrialized societies. Conference sponsors were IIASA, the Geneva Association, and the Center for Risk and Decision Processes of the University of Pennsyl vania. Additional financial support was received from the US Environ mental Protection Agency, the Monsanto Corporation, the Center for Organizational Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania, and the Canadian IIASA Committee. We are grateful to all of these institutions for their generous support of this Conference. Within IIASA, a long history of research in risk activities is evi dent. This owes much to the vision of IIASA's founding Director, Howard Raiffa, and program leaders who have promoted risk research at IIASA. The present Conference continued this tradition with the strong support of IIASA's current Director, Thomas H. Lee, and Deputy Director, Vitali Kaftanov.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Policy Research and Insurance
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Hazardous waste sites
ISBN : UCR:31210014949216

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Insurer Liability for Cleanup Costs of Hazardous Waste Sites by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Policy Research and Insurance Pdf

Author : D.K. Asante-Duah,I.V. Nagy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1998-03-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781135814687

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International Trade in Hazardous Wastes by D.K. Asante-Duah,I.V. Nagy Pdf

This book discusses the need for a regulated and informed forum for international trade in hazardous waste. The authors argue that with careful planning, health and ecological risks can be minimized and net economic benefits realized fairly. The book examines the key parameters that should be considered by potential trading nations to ensure an optimally safe and mutually beneficial partnership. The authors provide comprehensive coverage of the political, environmental, industrial and economic issues involved in this complex and increasingly controversial practice.

Author : Paul K. Freeman,Howard Kunreuther
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401153607

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Managing Environmental Risk Through Insurance by Paul K. Freeman,Howard Kunreuther Pdf

Can insurance be used as a means to obtain compliance with environmental policy? Answering this question requires examination of a broad mosaic of academic issues, including current systems available for providing compensation and deterrence, use of contracts (including insurance) as substitutes for tort law, limitations of regulatory policy-making by government agencies, pre-conditions for creation of insurance products, and market mechanisms necessary for insurance to be purchased or sold. The purpose of Managing Environmental Risk Through Insurance is to highlight the potential role that insurance and performance standards can play in managing environmental risk. Insurance can play a significant role in dealing with one of the most problematic issues facing society today - how to compensate for environmental exposures. This book analyzes the ability of insurance to play a role in managing environmental risk. It begins by outlining the role insurance plays in society in contrast to other societal tools for addressing risk: government benefit programs and imposition of involuntary liability using the court system. By so doing, the book describes the comparative advantages of insurance. The book then analyzes the insurability of the risks. Finally, the book applies the insurability analysis to three concrete environmental examples.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264105522

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Policy Issues in Insurance Environmental Risks and Insurance A Comparative Analysis of the Role of Insurance in the Management of Environment-Related Risks by OECD Pdf

This report focuses on the role of insurance and reinsurance companies in the management of environmental risks - environmental pollution risk and natural catastrophe risk in particular.

Author : Colin F. Camerer,Howard Kunreuther
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789401121927

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Making Decisions About Liability And Insurance by Colin F. Camerer,Howard Kunreuther Pdf

Two related trends have created novel challenges for managing risk in the United States. The first trend is a series of dramatic changes in liability law as tort law has expanded to assign liability to defendants for reasons other than negligence. The unpredictability of future costs induced by changes in tort law may be partly responsible for the second major trend known as the `liability crisis' - the disappearance of liability protection in markets for particularly unpredictable risks. This book examines decisions people make about insurance and liability. An understanding of such decision making may help explain why the insurance crisis resulted from the new interpretations of tort law and what to do about it. The articles cover three kinds of decisions: consumer decisions to purchase insurance; insurer decisions about coverage they offer; and the decisions of the public about the liability rules they prefer, which are reflected in legislation and regulation. For each of these three kinds of decisions, normative theories such as expected utility theory can be used as benchmarks against which actual decisions are judged.

Author : Kofi Asante-Duah
Publisher : Springer
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789402410396

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Public Health Risk Assessment for Human Exposure to Chemicals by Kofi Asante-Duah Pdf

This book provides a concise, yet comprehensive overview of the many facets relating to human health risk assessments in relation to chemical exposure problems. It presents some very important tools and methodologies that can be used to address chemical exposure and public health risk management problems in a consistent, efficient, and cost-effective manner. On the whole, the book represents a collection and synthesis of the principal elements of the risk assessment process that may be used to more effectively address issues pertaining to human exposures to chemicals found in modern societies. This also includes an elaboration of pertinent risk assessment concepts and techniques/methodologies for performing human health risk assessments. Written for both the novice and the experienced, the subject matter of this book is an attempt at offering a simplified and systematic presentation of public health risk assessment methods and application tools – all these facilitated by a layout that will carefully navigate the user through the major processes involved. A number of illustrative example problems are interspersed throughout the book, in order to help present the book in an easy-to-follow, pragmatic manner.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264021082

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Policy Issues in Insurance Insurance in the Baltic Countries by OECD Pdf

This book contains papers presenting overviews of various aspects of the Baltic insurance market along with papers examining specific policy issues.

Author : James Hamilton,W. Kip Viscusi
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262082780

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Calculating Risks? by James Hamilton,W. Kip Viscusi Pdf

"By matching agency decision data to detailed census information using geographic information systems (GIS) technology, the authors show that most hazardous waste sites do not pose sufficient risk to merit the most stringent cleanup options. Those sites that do pose considerable risk to exposed populations often receive inadequate attention, because government decisions to target cleanups are based more on political factors than on actual risks. The authors propose policy reforms that could significantly reduce cleanup costs without sacrificing the protection of human health."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Tim Jackson
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1993-05-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0873718844

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Clean Production Strategies Developing Preventive Environmental Management in the Industrial Economy by Tim Jackson Pdf

Clean Production Strategies is a cross-disciplinary book that presents a comprehensive examination of a new ethic emphasizing the appropriate design of products, processes, and economic activities to reduce the generation of waste into the environment. The book explores concepts and principles, technological issues, economic implications, the development of policy, and broad social questions associated with implementing clean production strategies. Written by a team of international experts in the field, Clean Production Strategies covers a wide range of topics, including principles of thermodynamics, quantitative assessments of material flows, the development of practical clean technologies, and the re-evaluation of our relationship with the environment. The book will be useful to government policy-makers, industrial decision-makers, plant managers, industrial engineers, economists, environmentalists, international regulatory agency personnel, and others interested in the topic.

Author : K. Asante-Duah
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789401004817

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Public Health Risk Assessment for Human Exposure to Chemicals by K. Asante-Duah Pdf

In fact, with the control and containment of most infectious conditions and diseases of the past millennium having been achieved in most developed countries, and with the resultant increase in life expectancies, much more attention seems to have shifted to degenerative health problems. Many of the degenerative health conditions have been linked to thousands of chemicals regularly encountered in human living and occupational/work environments. It is important, therefore, that human health risk assessments are undertaken on a consistent basis - in order to determine the potential impacts of the target chemicals on public health.

Author : Rae Zimmerman
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1990-04-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 0873711432

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Governmental Management of Chemical Risk by Rae Zimmerman Pdf

Well-documented, organized and written for ready comprehension, this new book covers managerial, legal and financial strategies that are or can be employed to manage the health risks posed by technology. It demonstrates how each strategy is used and which ones are more valuable to decision-makers in different situations. More than a dozen laws are reviewed through the legislative process, providing a clear understanding of governmental processes for risk management. Non-regulatory and regulatory approaches to risk management are covered from both a theoretical and practical perspective. New financial instruments that reduce or prevent consequences of chemical risks are examined. Serves a dual purpose: GOVERNMENTAL MANAGEMENT of CHEMICAL RISK first provides a comprehensive coverage of components of risk management; second, it analyzes, through case studies, emerging patterns of use of risk management techniques to determine what makes a success or failure. This book deals with:

Author : Kofi Asante-Duah
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000157826

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Hazardous Waste Risk Assessment by Kofi Asante-Duah Pdf

Hazardous Waste Risk Assessment provides a concise yet comprehensive examination of concepts and techniques in risk assessment that can be applied to hazardous waste problems. The book emphasizes the use of health risk assessment to support management decisions on hazardous waste disposal and site remediation programs. Methods discussed include those for developing strategies for health and environmental assessment and site restoration tasks, evaluating corrective action programs, determining the effects of risk assessment results on risk management decisions in hazardous waste programs and general risk management and prevention programs, and performing safety evaluations of hazardous waste facilities. Step-by-step numerical case evaluations are used to help present the book in an easy-to-follow, realistic manner. Features