Precautionary principle as a rule of choice with optimism on windfall gains and pessimism on catastrophic losses

Ecological Economics

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 485-491

  Basili, Marcello ^a   Chateauneuf, Alain ^b   Fontini, Fulvio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS 1 PANTHÉON SORBONNE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Choquet Integral; Precautionary Principle; Restricted Bayes Hurwicz Criterion; Risk

Indexed keywords

CATASTROPHIC EVENT; DECISION MAKING; DISASTER MANAGEMENT; PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 50849084436     PISSN: 09218009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2007.12.030     Document Type: Article

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