Extreme Event Decision Making Workshop

Workshop Report (June 2002 -- 97kb pdf file)

Please send comments to t.stewart@albany.edu.

Materials for the workshop:

April 29-30, 2001
National Science Foundation Board Room (Room 1235)
4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA

Tentative Agenda

Objectives and themes
(based on participant statements)

Statements from Workshop Participants

Hal Arkes

Jerome Busemeyer

Lee Clarke

Mike DeKay

Klára Faragó

Kenneth Hammond

Charles Herrick

Julie Irwin

Alex Kirlik

David Krantz

Howard Kunreuther

Barbara Mellers

John Mulvey

Jeryl Mumpower

Ola Svenson

Al Wallace

Elise Weaver

Rae Zimmerman
Participant list and biographical sketches

Extreme Events:
A Research and Policy Framework for Disasters in Context
by Daniel Sarewitz and Roger Pielke, Jr. (March 2001)

Background Document

Other relevant papers and links

Linking strategic and tactical planning systems for asset and liability management

by John M. Mulvey, Chris Madsen, and Fançois Morin (Annals of Operations Research 85(1999) 249-266)

Mitigation and Financial Risk Management for Natural Hazards by Howard Kunreuther
Paper Presented at the Wharton-World Bank Conference on "Innovations in Managing Catastrophic Risks: How Can They Help the Poor?"
January 8-10, 2001, Washington, DC

The Role of Models in Prediction for Decision by Roger A. Pielke, Jr.
(Discussion Draft of 28 February 2001)
Paper prepared for Cary Conference IX: Understanding Ecosystems: The Role of Quantitative Models in Observations, Synthesis, and Prediction

Decision Risk and Management Science Program
National Science Foundation

Center for Policy Research
Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy
University at Albany