Playing against Nature: Integrating Science and Economics to Mitigate Natural Hazards in an Uncertain World

Author:   Seth Stein (Northwestern University) ,  Jerome Stein
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
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9781118620823


Pages:   280
Publication Date:   23 May 2014
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Seth Stein (Northwestern University) ,  Jerome Stein
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   American Geophysical Union
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 25.20cm
Weight:   0.735kg
ISBN:  

9781118620823


ISBN 10:   1118620828
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   23 May 2014
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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That Rumsfeld's pithy and precise summary of the nature of uncertainty in policymaking is often cited as opaque and obscurant shows more than anything the need for a book like this. (Survival Global Politics & Strategy, 1 February 2015)


That Rumsfeld's pithy and precise summary of the nature of uncertainty in policymaking is often cited as opaque and obscurant shows more than anything the need for a book like this. (Survival Global Politics & Strategy, 1 February 2015)


<p> That Rumsfeld s pithy and precise summary of the nature of uncertainty in policymaking is often cited as opaque and obscurant shows more than anything the need for a book like this. (Survival Global Politics & Strategy, 1 February 2015)


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Seth Stein, Deering Professor of Geological Sciences at Northwestern University, is a seismologist interested in the science of large earthquakes and earthquake hazard mitigation. He has been awarded the James B. Macelwane Medal of the American Geophysical Union, the George Woollard Award of the Geological Society of America, the Stephan Mueller Medal of the European Geosciences Union, the Price Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society and a Humboldt Foundation Research Award. The late Jerome Stein, who was Eastman Professor of Economics at Brown University, had interests including decision theory and formation of public policy.

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