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Books by Howard Kunreuther
  | | On Risk and Disaster(Updated) Lessons from Hurricane Katrina by Howard Kunreuther, Ronald J. Daniels, Amy Gutmann, Donald F. Kettl, Donald J. Kettl, Ronald Joel Daniels Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 2006 by University Of Pennsylvania Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-1959-3, ISBN: 0-8122-1959-7 "Leading experts address questions of public and private roles in assessing, managing, and mitigating major risks to public health and safety in light of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. "This volume provides important insights from the nation's leading experts on how we, as a community and nation, should be rethinking disaster assessment, prevention, and mitigation. Policymakers, legislators, business leaders, and scholars: ..." |
 | | The Dilemma of Siting a High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository(Reprint) (Studies in Risk and Uncertainty) by Douglas Easterling, Howard Kunreuther Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 2008 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-0-7923-9584-3, ISBN: 0-7923-9584-0 "This book explores siting dilemmas - situations in which an "authority" (e.g., Congress, a consortium of utilities) deems it in the best interest of society to build a facility such as an incinerator, but opponents living near the proposed site thwart the plan. Facility developers typically attribute local opposition to selfishness or radically inaccurate views of the risks posed by the facility. We examine the validity of these conclus ..." |
 | | Risk, Media and Stigma(1st Edition) Understanding Public Challenges to Modern Science and Technology by Paul Slovic, James Flynn, Howard Kunreuther, Stuart Parkinson, Tim Jackson, Katie Berg Paperback, 399 Pages, Published 2001 by Earthscan ISBN-13: 978-1-85383-700-5, ISBN: 1-85383-700-8 "The benefits of modern technology often involve health, safety and environmental risks that produce public suspicion of technologies and aversion to certain products and substances. Amplified by the pervasive power of the media, public concern about health and ecological risks can have enormous economic and social impacts, such as the 'stigmatization' experienced in recent years with nuclear power, British beef and genetically modified ..." |
 | | Catastrophe Modeling A New Approach to Managing Risk (Huebner International Series on Risk, Insurance and Economic Security) by Patricia Grossi, Howard Kunreuther, Chandu C. Patel Paperback, 252 Pages, Published 2005 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-0-387-24105-0, ISBN: 0-387-24105-1 "Catastrophe Modeling: A New Approach to Managing Risk is the first book that systematically analyzes how catastrophe models can be used for assessing and managing risks of extreme events. It focuses on natural disaster risk, but also discusses the management of terrorism risk. A unique feature of this book is the involvement of three leading catastrophe modeling firms, AIR Worldwide, EQECAT, and Risk Management Solutions, who examine th ..." |
 | | Catastrophe Modeling A New Approach to Managing Risk (Huebner International Series on Risk, Insurance and Economic Security) by Patricia Grossi, Howard Kunreuther, Chandu C. Patel Hardcover, 252 Pages, Published 2004 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-0-387-23082-5, ISBN: 0-387-23082-3 "A New Approach to Managing Risk Patricia Grossi, Howard Kunreuther, Chandu C. Patel ... of the higher deductible since they may focus on their out-of-pocket expenses following a disaster when they buy coverage. ... Scientific and modeling uncertainties play an important role in accurately assessing natural hazard risk. If one focuses solely on reductions in property damage, mitigation measures may not be cost-effective for a homeow ..." |
 | | Economics of Natural Disasters(1st Edition) by Douglas C. Dacy, Howard Kunreuther Hardcover, 768 Pages, Published 1969 by Free Press ISBN-13: 978-0-02-906930-1, ISBN: 0-02-906930-0 |
 | | Managing Environmental Risk Through Insurance (Studies in Risk and Uncertainty) by Paul K. Freeman, Howard Kunreuther Hardcover, 120 Pages, Published 1997 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-0-7923-9901-8, ISBN: 0-7923-9901-3 "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 mark ..." |
 | | Paying the Price(1st Edition) The Status and Role of Insurance Against Natural Disasters in the United States (Natural Hazards and Disasters Series) by Howard Kunreuther, Richard J. Orth, Richard J. Roth, Joseph Henry Press, Ricahrd Roth Hardcover, 318 Pages, Published 1998 by Joseph Henry Press ISBN-13: 978-0-309-06361-6, ISBN: 0-309-06361-2 "This book considers the effectiveness of insurance coverage for low-probability, high-consequence events such as natural disasters--and how insurance programs can successfully be used with other policy tools, such as building codes and standards, to encourage effective loss reduction measures. The authors discuss the reasons for the dramatic increase in insured losses from natural disasters since 1989 and the concern that insurers have ..." |
 | | Making Decisions About Liability And Insurance(Reprint) A Special Issue of the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty by Colin F. Camerer, Howard Kunreuther Hardcover, 139 Pages, Published 1993 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-0-7923-9393-1, ISBN: 0-7923-9393-7 "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 ..." |
 | | Integrating Insurance and Risk Management for Hazardous Wastes by Howard Kunreuther Hardcover, 366 Pages, Published 1990 by Springer ISBN-13: 978-0-7923-9009-1, ISBN: 0-7923-9009-1 "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 inter ..." |
 | | Learning from Catastrophes(1st Edition) Strategies for Reaction and Response by Howard Kunreuther, Michael Useem, Klaus Schwab Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2009 by Pearson Prentice Hall ISBN-13: 978-0-13-704485-6, ISBN: 0-13-704485-2 "Events ranging from Hurricane Katrina to the global economic crisis have taught businesspeople an unforgettable lesson: if you don’t plan for “extreme risk,” you endanger your organization’s very survival. But how can you plan for events that go far beyond anything that occurs in normal day-to-day business? In Learning from Catastrophes, two renowned experts present the first comprehensive strategic framework for assessing, responding t ..." |
 | | Learning from Catastrophes(1st Edition) Strategies for Reaction and Response (paperback) by Howard Kunreuther, Michael Useem, Alan Berger, Case Brown, Sean Cleary Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2009 by Ft Press ISBN-13: 978-0-13-354020-8, ISBN: 0-13-354020-0 "Events ranging from Hurricane Katrina to the global economic crisis have taught businesspeople an unforgettable lesson: if you don’t plan for “extreme risk,” you endanger your organization’s very survival. But how can you plan for events that go far beyond anything that occurs in normal day-to-day business? In Learning from Catastrophes, two renowned experts present the first comprehensive strategic framework for assessing, responding t ..." |
 | | Insurance Decision Making and Market Behavior(Updated) (Foundations and Trends(r) in Microeconomics) by Howard Kunreuther, Mark V. Pauly Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2006 by Now Publishers Inc ISBN-13: 978-1-933019-25-3, ISBN: 1-933019-25-5 "Insurance Decision Making and Market Behavior discusses such behavior with the intent of categorizing these insurance "anomalies". It represents a first step in constructing a theory of insurance decision making to explain behavior that does not conform to standard economic models of choice and decision-making. Finally, the authors propose a set of prescriptive solutions for improving insurance decision-making. Considerable evidence s ..." |
 | | International Trade in Insurance Pension Research Council Monographs (S. S. Huebner Foundation Monograph Series) by Howard Kunreuther, Mark V. Pauly Paperback, 101 Pages, Published 1990 by Irwin Professional Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-256-09140-3, ISBN: 0-256-09140-4 |
 | | Disaster Insurance Protection Public Policy Lessons by Howard Kunreuther, Ralph Ginsberg, Louis Miller, Philip Sagi, Paul Slovic, Bradley Borkan, Norman Katz Hardcover, 428 Pages, Published 1978 by John Wiley & Sons Inc ISBN-13: 978-0-471-03259-5, ISBN: 0-471-03259-X "Book by Kunreuther, Howard" |
 | | The Ostrich Paradox Why We Underprepare for Disasters by Robert Meyer, Howard Kunreuther Paperback, 132 Pages, Published 2017 by Wharton School Press ISBN-13: 978-1-61363-080-8, ISBN: 1-61363-080-8 ""The Ostrich Paradox boldly addresses a key question of our time: Why are we humans so poor at dealing with disastrous risks, and what can we humans do about it? It is a must-read for everyone who cares about risk." —Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics and author of Thinking, Fast and SlowWe fail to evacuate when advised. We rebuild in flood zones. We don't wear helmets. We fail to purchase insurance. We would rather ..." |
 | | Leadership Dispatches(1st Edition) Chile's Extraordinary Comeback from Disaster (High Reliability and Crisis Management) by Michael Useem, Howard Kunreuther, Erwann Michel-Kerjan Hardcover, 296 Pages, Published 2015 by Stanford Business Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-9387-2, ISBN: 0-8047-9387-5 "On February 27, 2010, Chile was rocked by a violent earthquake five hundred times more powerful than the one that hit Haiti just six weeks prior. The Chilean earthquake devastated schools, hospitals, roads, and homes, paralyzing the country for weeks and causing economic damage that was equal to 18 percent of Chile's GDP. This calamity hit just as an incumbent political regime was packing its bags and a new administration was preparing ..." |
 | | Managing Environmental Risk Through Insurance (Studies in Risk and Uncertainty) by Paul K. Freeman, Howard Kunreuther Paperback, 107 Pages, Published 1997 by Aei Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8447-4019-5, ISBN: 0-8447-4019-5 "Managing Environmental Risk Through Insurance 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 insur ..." |
 | | One Hundred Centuries of Solitude Redirecting America's High-Level Nuclear Waste Policies by James Flynn, James Chalmers, Doug Easterling, Roger Kasperson, Howard Kunreuther 129 Pages, Published 2019 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-1-00-030760-3, ISBN: 1-00-030760-3 "When Congress passed the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, it directed the Department of Energy to locate, study, license, and develop a deep underground repository for high-level nuclear wastes." |
 | | The Future of Risk Management by Howard Kunreuther, Robert J. Meyer 416 Pages, Published 2019 by University Of Pennsylvania Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-9622-8, ISBN: 0-8122-9622-2 "Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Kunreuther, H., & Weber, E. U. (2014). Aiding decision making to reduce the impacts of climate change. Journal of Consumer Policy, 37, 397–411. Li, Y., Johnson, E. J., Weber, E. U., Enkavi, A. Z., Gao, ..." |
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