Journal of Risk Analysis and Crisis Response

Volume 4, Issue 3, September 2014
Editorial

1. Editor's Introduction

Chongfu Huang
Pages: 113 - 113
Research Article

2. Emerging Risks: Methodology, Classification and Policy Implications

Ortwin Renn
Pages: 114 - 132
Good risk governance seems to rest on the three components: knowledge, legally prescribed procedures and social values. All three components are of particular importance for assessing and managing emerging risks, which are characterized by a lack of knowledge about the likelihood and magnitude of potential...
Research Article

3. TIEMS DREVS Initiative: Disaster Resilience Establishment for Vulnerable Societies

K. Harald Drager, Thomas V. Robertson
Pages: 133 - 140
Due to changing climate, population growth, and other factors the loss of life and damage to physical property has increased significantly in developing countries. The effects of these disasters can cause long term impacts on productivity and growth throughout the world. Although it is in the international...
Case Study

4. Identification of Global Indicators for Regulatory Risk Management in Production Platforms - Case Study of Brazilian Industry

Alex Garcia de Almeida, Marco Antonio Gaya de Figueiredo
Pages: 141 - 150
This study aims to analyze different indicator’s programs from regulators and other organizations, select and apply methods to normalize and compose global indicator. Using obtained information related to risk management system and incidents from 67 oil and gas production platforms in Brazil, the results...
Research Article

5. A Gamer’s Nightmare: An Analysis of the Sony PlayStation Hacking Crisis

Bolanle A. Olaniran, Andrew Potter, Katy A. Ross, Brad Johnson
Pages: 151 - 159
The Sony PlayStation hacking crisis presents all too common personal data theft in the digital information age. The hacking necessitates the need for how such a crisis could be prevented in an attempt to safeguard customers’ personal information and ensure trust between client and vendor relationship....
Research Article

6. Shipwreck: A Crisis with Challenging Solutions

Nikolaos P. Ventikos, Alexandros Koimtzoglou, Konstantinos Louzis
Pages: 160 - 174
In this paper, we deal with the subject of shipwreck removal and the methods that are employed during removal operations. We use a case study to illustrate the stages of these operations as well as the parameters that affect the process. Furthermore, we outline a number of different scenarios of the...
Research Article

7. An Empirical Research on the Relationship between Property Insurance Premiums and Macroeconomic Variables Based on ARDL Model

Guiyun You, Shanshan Cao, Jing Feng, Shu Yu
Pages: 175 - 181
Given that most of property insurance policies are one-year contracts and have a high renewal, this paper establishes Auto-regressive Distributed Lag Model (ARDL) which considers adding lags of the dependent variable and/or lags of some independent variables. Based on the data of Insurance Premiums in...