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Henrik Tehler

Henrik Tehler

Professor

Henrik Tehler

Risk preferences regarding multiple fatalities and some implications for societal risk decision making-an empirical study

Författare

  • Marcus Abrahamsson
  • Henrik Tehler

Summary, in English

Risk preferences related to accidents or other situations involving the possibility of multiple fatalities were studied in 87 persons in Sweden belonging to two separate groups with professional or educational knowledge of risk- and crisis-management issues. Use was made of a tradeoff method, the results obtained consisting of von Neuman-Morgenstern utility functions over the range of 0-1000 fatalities. Most of the utility curves for the number of fatalities were found to be convex, implying the majority of subjects to display risk-seeking behaviour. Implications of the findings for societal risk decision making are discussed, along with prospective areas of application and the possibilities of considering other dimensions than the number of fatalities.

Avdelning/ar

  • Avdelningen för Brandteknik
  • Lund University Centre for Risk Assessment and Management (LUCRAM)
  • Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

Publiceringsår

2006

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

703-715

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Risk Research

Volym

9

Issue

7

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Routledge

Ämne

  • Building Technologies
  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
  • Other Civil Engineering

Nyckelord

  • Societies and institutions
  • Function evaluation
  • Decision making
  • Health risks
  • Social aspects
  • Risk assessment
  • Accident prevention

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1366-9877