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Critical Infrastructure : Reliability and Vulnerability

Murray, Alan T. (contributor); Grubesic, Tony H. (contributor) - 2007

This text brings together differing geographic perspectives in modeling and analysis in order to highlight infrastructure weaknesses or plan for their protection. Offering new methodological approaches, the book explores the potential consequences of critical infrastructure failure, stemming...

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Risk Assessment, Modeling and Decision Support : Strategic Directions

Bostrom, Ann (ed.); French, Steven P. (ed.); … - 2008

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Macroeconomic Risk Management Against Natural Disasters : Analysis focussed on governments in developing countries

Hochrainer-Stigler, Stefan (contributor) - 2006

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Mathematical Models for Evacuation Planning in Urban Areas

Bretschneider, Sarah - 2013

Introduction -- Literature Review -- An Urban Evacuation Problem -- A Relaxation-Based Heuristic Approach for the Mixed-Integer Evacuation Model -- A Pattern-Based Evacuation Planning Model for Urban Areas -- A Two-Staged Heuristic Approach -- A Multicommodity Urban Evacuation Problem -- A...

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Intergenerational Income Mobility and Redistributive Policy

Schad, Mareike - 2016

Mareike Schad examines how redistributive policy measures influence intergenerational income mobility, taking into account various facets of the parent-child connection. In the first part, the author investigates the impact of education and education policy on income mobility both theoretically...

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Social Ethics and Normative Economics : Essays in Honour of Serge-Christophe Kolm

Fleurbaey, Marc - 2011

-Best Culture, and the Theory of Regulation -- Public Utility Pricing and Capacity Choice with Stochastic Demand -- Bidimensional … Advantage -- On Kolm's Use of Epistemic Counterfactuals in Social Choice Theory -- Optimal Redistribution in the Distributive … with different population sizes? How can domain conditions in social choice theory be justified using Kolm's epistemic …

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Individual and Collective Choice and Social Welfare : Essays in Honor of Nick Baigent

Binder, Constanze - 2015

, coercion, public goods, climate change, and voting theory. The book offers an excellent overview over latest research in these …

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Congestion-Prone Services under Quality Competition : A Microeconomic Analysis

Moon, Dong-joo - 2012

Introduction -- Part I: Service Demand of Consumers -- Part II: Cost Analyses for Congestion-Prone Service Systems -- Part III: Decisions of Congestion-Prone Service Firms -- Part IV: Social Welfare Issues for Congestion-Prone Services -- References -- Index

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Einkommensverteilungsbasierte Präferenz- und Koalitionsanalysen auf der Basis selbstähnlicher Equity-Lorenzkurven : Ein Beitrag zur Quantifizierung sozialer Nachhaltigkeit

Herlyn, Estelle - 2012

Zu große Einkommensungleichheit gefährdet die Prosperität und Kohärenz einer Gesellschaft im gleichen Maß wie ein zu hoher Ausgleich der Einkommen; mittlere Ausgleichniveaus hingegen weisen die höchste Konsensfähigkeit auf. Diese Erkenntnisse resultieren aus der analytischen Nutzung von...

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Efficiency and Equity in Welfare Economics

Nicola, Pier Carlo - 2013

Overview -- Inequality, Poverty, and Welfare: Social Welfare and Income Distributions -- Inequality and Poverty Indexes -- Welfare and Efficiency: Inequality, Efficiency, and the Production Sphere -- Efficiency and Welfare -- Information Incentives and Performance -- Summary Example and...

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