The need for nonuniform risk acceptability across climate change scenarios

• Published in: Risk analysis Vol. 44; no. 9; pp. 1991 - 2000
• Main Authors: Nasr, Amro, Ivanov, Oskar Larsson, Björnsson, Ivar, Johansson, Jonas
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2024
• Subjects: Acceptability; acceptable probability of failure; Acceptance; Acceptance criteria; Climate change; Context; Cost analysis; Earth and Related Environmental Sciences; Economic development; Environmental risk; Geovetenskap och miljövetenskap; Geovetenskap och relaterad miljövetenskap; Image quality; Life expectancy; life quality index; Life span; Natural Sciences; Naturvetenskap; Oceanografi, hydrologi och vattenresurser; Oceanography, Hydrology and Water Resources; Oceanography, Hydrology, Water Resources; Population growth; Population studies; Probability; Quality of life; risk acceptability; Risk acceptance; Risk assessment; valuation of human life; Sweden; acceptable probability of failure; risk acceptability; life quality index; valuation of human life; climate change

Climate change risk assessment studies focus on identifying and analyzing different risks considering several climate change scenarios and on evaluating the cost‐effectiveness of different adaptation measures. However, risk acceptability is often not reflected on in the context of climate change ris...