Environmental Risk Analysis
Description
This book addresses the assessment and management of risks related to environmental factors such as pollution, climate change and natural hazards.
Environmental risk analysis sits at the crossroads of environmental science, policy, economics, and human behaviour. It asks how natural hazards affect human systems, who bears losses, and which interventions build resilience.
Marking the 10th Anniversary of the ENVECON conference, the volume comprises 16 chapters that treat risk as systemic and dynamic, shaped by hazards, exposure, and vulnerability.
The topics covered focus on risk assessment through causal econometrics, game theory, time-series, and panel modelling. These approaches target a diverse range of fields, such as sectoral evidence on extreme-weather productivity impacts, environmental taxation, environmental risks, and sustainability reporting.
Valuable for postgraduate students, professionals, and policymakers involved in environmental science, engineering, and public policy, the book offers management tools and policy actions for decision-making under uncertainty and sustainable development.
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Persons
Prof. George E. Halkos
George Halkos is a Greek economist and academic specializing in Environmental Economics in the Department of Economics and Director of the Laboratory of Operations Research at the University of Thessaly, Greece. He has published more than 300 scientific papers in international peer-reviewed journals, and has written and edited 13 academic textbooks, widely used as basic teaching materials in undergraduate and postgraduate programs at Greek universities. He is ranked among the top 2% of researchers with the most citations for five consecutive years (2020-2024). Additionally, according to the Stanford University/ Elsevier list, he held the first position at the University of Thessaly for four consecutive years (2021-2024). Furthermore, in the global bibliographic database of economists IDEAS-RePEc, he is ranked in the top 1% worldwide, in Europe, in the European Union, and in Greece.
Prof. Teresa A. Oliveira
Teresa A. Oliveira is Associate Professor with Habilitation in Mathematics-Statistics at Universidade Aberta (UAb), Lisbon. She is an integrated member of the Laboratory of Distance Education and eLearning- LE@D, a collaborator of CIAC and CEG at UAb, and a senior researcher at the Center of Statistics and Applications of the University of Lisbon (CEAUL). Her research spans statistics, particularly experimental design, risk analysis, computational statistics, data science, connections to artificial intelligence, and e-learning methodologies, as well as applications to a broad range of areas across environmental sciences, economics, education and industry. She is Chair of the ISI Committee on Risk Analysis (2014-), a founding member of the ISI Working Group on Data Science, and a collaborator of the International Science Council and UK Health Security Agency. She has chaired and co-chaired major international conferences, such as, in 2025, the ICRA-10 in Patras-Greece, ICASTE in Antalya-Turkey and WSMC15 in Santarém-Portugal. She has authored, co-authored and co-edited numerous publications, serves on multiple editorial boards, and continues to inspire innovation through teaching, supervision, and global collaborations.
Em. Prof. Christos P. Kitsos
Em. Prof Christos P. Kitsos, University of Western Attica, received his BA in Mathematics from the University of Athens, Greece (1973), his MA in Mathematics & Statistics from the University of New Brunswick, Canada (1978), and his PhD in Statistics from the Department of Statistics, University of Glasgow, UK (1986). He has lectured at various universities and authored numerous papers and books, as well as co-edited conference proceedings.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Amílcar Oliveira
Amílcar Oliveira from Universidade Aberta (UAb), Portugal, is a member of CEAUL, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal and LEaD, Universidade Aberta, Portugal. He obtained his Habilitation in Mathematics from UAb in 2024, his PhD in Mathematics from UAb (2008), and his MA in Statistics and Optimization from Nova University of Lisbon (1999). He has published more than fifteen papers in international refereed journals and conference proceedings, co-authored twelve book chapters, and edited fifteen books. He serves on the Scientific and Organizing Committees of several international conferences and chairs statistical conferences.
Content
Preface.- Introduction.- 1.Impact of extreme weather events on total factor productivity and efficiency in the Sri Lankan fisheries sector.- 2.The cascading effects among natural hazards: Interaction maps as tool for risk management.- 3.Analysis of the Environmental Tax in EU. A Study of its Equity through Gini Index and Lorenz Curve.- 4.Dynamic environmental subsidy policies.- 5.Dynamic environmental subsidy policies.-6.Measuring uncertainty, transfer entropy and G-causality In Environmental Economics.-7.Environmental risk footprint on cryptocurrencies and money evolution in inflationary crises.- 8.A time series analysis comparing the main air pollutants of Athens and Salonica in Greece.- 9.Identifying impacts and causalities regarding air quality, environment, and tourism in the eurozone economic space: a panel data analysis.- 10.Global Bioeconomy: History, Visions and Limitations.- 11.Exploring the Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Employee Mental Health, Resilience, and Job Satisfaction.- 12.A policy review for small-medium enterprises on overcoming environmental risks: The role of environmental management systems under the scope of environmental social and corporate governance.- 13.A note on climate change accounting and reporting in Greece: Insights from the adoption of the TCFD recommendations among large-caps.- 14.Ecologically Optimal Quantities Extraction. Conflicting cases.- 15.Challenges in Achieving Inclusive Development in the South Asia.- 16.Information and Communication Technology Adoption and Climate Risk Perception: Evidence from Smallholder Farmers in Rural Vietnam.