Analysing last century’s occurrence and impacts of technological and complex environmental hazards

Halkos, George and Zisiadou, Argyro (2018): Analysing last century’s occurrence and impacts of technological and complex environmental hazards.

Abstract

The purpose of the paper is to present the occurrence and fatalities of the technological and complex environmental hazards and draw an initial picture of concentration if there is any. For that reason, aggregate regional tables are used as well as map visualizations created in R- studio. As it is shown, there appears to be a space concentration on the natural environmental hazards that need to be deeply examined with the use of advanced econometric techniques.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Risk; technological - environmental hazards; disaster; economic damage
• Subjects: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C6 - Mathematical Methods ; Programming Models ; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C6 - Mathematical Methods ; Programming Models ; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling > C63 - Computational Techniques ; Simulation Modeling; D - Microeconomics > D6 - Welfare Economics > D62 - Externalities; H - Public Economics > H1 - Structure and Scope of Government > H12 - Crisis Management; I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I3 - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty > I31 - General Welfare, Well-Being; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q5 - Environmental Economics > Q51 - Valuation of Environmental Effects; Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics ; Environmental and Ecological Economics > Q5 - Environmental Economics > Q54 - Climate ; Natural Disasters and Their Management ; Global Warming

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