| 书目名称 | The Risks of Terrorism |
| 编辑 | W. Kip Viscusi |
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| 丛书名称 | Studies in Risk and Uncertainty |
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| 描述 | .The September 11, 2001 terrorism attack on the United States has led government officials to rethink anti-terrorism policies and researchers to assess the implications for the study of risk and uncertainty. This book draws on the expertise of eminent researchers in several risk-related fields to assess three substantive areas of concern - risk beliefs, insurance market effects, and policy responses. ..The risk belief analyses consider several key questions. How do people think about the risks of terrorism? What are their attitudes toward these risks? To what extent are these low probability and highly dramatic risks overestimated? ..Several chapters present original survey results analyzing these different aspects of terrorism risk assessments. These studies also begin to explore how people might be willing to sacrifice civil liberties to reduce the risk of terrorism and whether perceived terrorism risks are affected by the severity of the outcome and by proximity to past terrorist attacks. ..The insurance industry incurred financial losses generated by the terrorism attack. The risks had not been foreseen and were not reflected in insurance pricing. These new terrorism risks gene |
| 出版日期 | Book 2003 |
| 关键词 | Terrorist; USA; assessment; ecology; insurance; insurance industry; pricing; probability; research; terrorism |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-6787-2 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-1-4419-5428-2 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-1-4757-6787-2Series ISSN 0926-972X |
| issn_series | 0926-972X |
| copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 2003 |
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