Risk AnalysisPub Date : 2025-03-15DOI: 10.1111/risa.17713
Chad M Baum, Elina Brutschin, Livia Fritz, Benjamin K Sovacool
{"title":"A new hope or phantom menace? Exploring climate emotions and public support for climate interventions across 30 countries.","authors":"Chad M Baum, Elina Brutschin, Livia Fritz, Benjamin K Sovacool","doi":"10.1111/risa.17713","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.17713","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Emotions are central to human experiences of climate change. Empirical research demonstrates their importance for climate perceptions and climate-related behaviors. The intensifying severity of climate change prompts consideration of emerging, potentially controversial technologies. Alongside mitigation and adaptation, climate intervention proposes to remove carbon dioxide from ambient air (carbon dioxide removal, CDR) or reflect sunlight away from the Earth (solar radiation modification, SRM). Although such options arouse emotional reactions of diverse kinds, the intersection between climate emotions and climate intervention has received limited attention. This article employed a unique, global dataset with 30,284 participants across 30 countries (in 19 languages) to provide insights on 3 questions. We first leveraged the global dataset to map the incidence of fear, hope, anger, sadness, and worry across countries-the first time the climate emotions of adults are investigated on this scale. We also identified significant differences in emotions by level of development, with those in advanced economies reporting weaker levels of climate emotions. Second, using multiple linear regression analyses, we explored the relationship between climate emotions and support for climate-intervention technologies. We determined that the emotions of hope and worry seem to be the most consistently (positively) correlated. Third, we explored if reading about technology categories differentially affected climate emotions. Individuals randomly assigned to read about ecosystems-based CDR were significantly more hopeful about climate change (those about SRM the least). Together, our results provide the first global-level evidence of the relationship between discrete climate emotions and perceptions and support of climate interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":21472,"journal":{"name":"Risk Analysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143633612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Risk AnalysisPub Date : 2025-03-13DOI: 10.1111/risa.70015
Louise Comfort, Saemi Chang
{"title":"Transition in dynamic events: The 2020 lightning complex fires in Northern California as an adaptive system.","authors":"Louise Comfort, Saemi Chang","doi":"10.1111/risa.70015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.70015","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The transition from one level of operations to a next larger, more complex level while maintaining coherence as a system has stymied organizational theorists for decades. Drawing on systems theory, network analysis, and collaborative governance, we explore how networks adapt during rapidly escalating crises. Specifically, we investigate the emergence of a synthesizing intelligence function among networks to support coordinated action. Using a case study of the 2020 Santa Clara Unit Lightning Complex Fire, we analyze field operations data from Incident Reports filed by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to develop a system dynamics model. Our findings suggest that a synthesizing intelligence function, informed by various types of intelligence, influences the rate of change in operational systems during dynamic conditions. This system-wide intelligence function is crucial for decision-makers confronting extreme events, facilitating effective anticipation of complex transitions in large-scale operational systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":21472,"journal":{"name":"Risk Analysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143625666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Risk AnalysisPub Date : 2025-03-13DOI: 10.1111/risa.70010
Giuseppe Cataldo, Emanuele Borgonovo, Aaron Siddens, Kevin Carpenter, Martin Nado, Elmar Plischke
{"title":"Global sensitivity analyses for test planning with black-box models for Mars Sample Return.","authors":"Giuseppe Cataldo, Emanuele Borgonovo, Aaron Siddens, Kevin Carpenter, Martin Nado, Elmar Plischke","doi":"10.1111/risa.70010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.70010","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This work describes sensitivity analyses performed on complex black-box models used to support experimental test planning under limited resources in the context of the Mars Sample Return program, which aims at bringing to Earth rock, regolith, and atmospheric samples from Mars. We develop a systematic workflow that allows the analysts to simultaneously obtain quantitative insights on key drivers of uncertainty, the direction of impact, and the presence of interactions. We apply optimal transport-based global sensitivity measures to tackle the multivariate nature of the output and we rely on sensitivity measures that do not require independence between the model inputs for the univariate output case. On the modeling side, we apply multifidelity techniques that leverage low-fidelity models to speed up the calculations and make up for the limited amount of high-fidelity samples, while keeping the latter in the loop for accuracy guarantees. The sensitivity analysis reveals insights useful to understand the model's behavior and identify the factors to focus on during testing, in order to maximize the informational value extracted from these tests and ensure mission success even with limited resources.</p>","PeriodicalId":21472,"journal":{"name":"Risk Analysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143625648","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Risk AnalysisPub Date : 2025-03-13DOI: 10.1111/risa.70017
Vicki Bier, Emanuele Borgonovo, Tony Cox, Cynthia Rudin
{"title":"Artificial intelligence for risk analysis and the risks of artificial intelligence: Part 1.","authors":"Vicki Bier, Emanuele Borgonovo, Tony Cox, Cynthia Rudin","doi":"10.1111/risa.70017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.70017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":21472,"journal":{"name":"Risk Analysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143625381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Risk AnalysisPub Date : 2025-03-11DOI: 10.1111/risa.70016
Philip A Ebert, David L Miller, David A Comerford, Mark Diggins
{"title":"End user and forecaster interpretations of the European Avalanche Danger Scale: A study of avalanche probability judgments in Scotland.","authors":"Philip A Ebert, David L Miller, David A Comerford, Mark Diggins","doi":"10.1111/risa.70016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.70016","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We investigate Scottish end users' and professional forecasters' risk perception in relation to the 5-point European Avalanche Danger Scale by eliciting numerical estimates of the probability of triggering an avalanche. Our main findings are that neither end users nor professional forecasters interpret the avalanche danger scale as intended, that is, in an exponential fashion. Second, we find that numerical interpretations by end users and professional forecasters have high variance, but are similar, in that both groups tend to overestimate the probability of triggering an avalanche and underestimate the relative risk increase. Finally, we find significant differences in the perceived probability of triggering an avalanche relative to a low or moderate avalanche danger level, and in the numerical interpretation of verbal probability terms depending on whether respondents provide their estimates using a frequency or a percentage chance format. We summarize our findings by identifying important lessons to improve avalanche risk understanding and its communication.</p>","PeriodicalId":21472,"journal":{"name":"Risk Analysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143606240","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Risk AnalysisPub Date : 2025-03-11DOI: 10.1111/risa.70007
Chenbo Wang, Gemma Cremen, Carmine Galasso
{"title":"Should I stay or should I go? Leveraging data-driven approaches to explore the effect of various disaster policies on postearthquake household relocation decision-making.","authors":"Chenbo Wang, Gemma Cremen, Carmine Galasso","doi":"10.1111/risa.70007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.70007","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Devastating earthquakes can cause affected households to relocate. Postearthquake relocation disrupts impacted households' social ties and, in some instances, their access to affordable services. Simulation-based approaches that model postearthquake relocation decision-making can be valuable tools for supporting the development of related disaster risk reduction (DRR) policies. Yet, existing versions of these models focus particularly on housing-related factors, which are not the sole driver of postearthquake relocation. We integrate data-driven approaches and local data to account for postearthquake household relocation decision-making within an existing simulation-based framework for policy-related risk-sensitive decision support on future urban development. We use household survey data related to the 2015 Gorkha earthquakes in Nepal to develop a random forest model that estimates the postearthquake relocation inclination of disaster-affected households. The developed model holistically captures various context-specific factors important to postearthquake household relocation decision-making. We leverage the framework to quantitatively assess the effectiveness of various DRR policies in reducing positive postearthquake relocation inclination, with an explicit focus on low-income households. We demonstrate it using \"Tomorrowville,\" a hypothetical expanding urban extent that reflects important social and physical characteristics of Kathmandu, Nepal. Our analyses suggest that the provision of livelihood assistance funds is more successful when it comes to mitigating positive postearthquake relocation inclination than hard policies focused on strengthening buildings (at least in the context of the examined case study). They also suggest viable pro-poor pathways for mitigating disaster relocation impacts without the need to create potentially politically sensitive income-based restrictions on policy remits.</p>","PeriodicalId":21472,"journal":{"name":"Risk Analysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143606243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A framework for resilience assessment of transportation networks exposed to geohazard threats.","authors":"Chao Fang, Mingce Wang, Haoran Fu, Yanze Chu, Enrico Zio","doi":"10.1111/risa.70014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.70014","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The increased frequency of rainfall-triggered geohazards has led to more disruptions of transportation networks in recent years. This study proposes an integrated framework for resilience assessment of transportation networks, where the highway disruption scenarios are simulated using a traffic model and a developed geohazard threat model based on real-world datasets. In the framework, we provide a resilience-oriented indicator that integrates traffic flow and geohazard threat, upon which to identify critical elements of the highway network and the geohazard-prone sites. To enhance the performance of the highway network under disruptions, we design multiple strategies including reinforcing highway segments and preventing potential geohazards. We apply the proposed approach to a realistic case study of the highway network of Shaanxi province in China. The results of the analysis demonstrate the validity and reliability of the resilience-oriented indicator, and illustrate that a mixture of reinforcement strategies provides better improvement in system performance under scenarios with different traffic demand level.</p>","PeriodicalId":21472,"journal":{"name":"Risk Analysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143586547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Risk AnalysisPub Date : 2025-03-08DOI: 10.1111/risa.70013
Zhao Zeng, Nan Wang, Zengkai Zhang, Huimin Wang, Huibin Du
{"title":"Flood footprint assessment: Assessing external assistance' impact on post-disaster recovery.","authors":"Zhao Zeng, Nan Wang, Zengkai Zhang, Huimin Wang, Huibin Du","doi":"10.1111/risa.70013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.70013","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Mitigating the risks posed by natural disasters has become a pressing public concern due to their increasingly frequent and intense occurrences, which threaten human lives and socio-economic development. External assistance (EA), as a common form of support for post-disaster reconstruction, has been recognized as significant in several studies. However, the lack of an assessment method has made it unclear to what extent economic recovery can be affected by EA. To address this problem, we adopt the flood footprint as an indicator and improve the flood footprint model by combining it with the consideration of EA. The purpose is to quantify the economic impact of EA on post-disaster recovery. In a successful application case of the 2013 Super Typhoon Haiyan disaster in Hainan province, China, we have validated the feasibility and flexibility of our approach. We found that EA, which accounted for 2.4% of direct economic losses, resulted in a 7.31% reduction of indirect economic losses in the Hainan case. These findings indicate that EA positively impacts short-term economic risk reduction, despite its complex influence on the overall economy. Furthermore, through scenario analysis on alternative EA schemes, we discuss that the ration scheme is a significant factor in determining EA's impact. Policymakers can minimize the indirect flood footprint and facilitate post-disaster economic recovery by implementing alternative EA schemes.</p>","PeriodicalId":21472,"journal":{"name":"Risk Analysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143586548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Risk AnalysisPub Date : 2025-03-08DOI: 10.1111/risa.70009
Kendrick Hardaway, Roger Flage
{"title":"A framework for evolving assumptions in risk analysis.","authors":"Kendrick Hardaway, Roger Flage","doi":"10.1111/risa.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.70009","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Risk assessment can be used to evaluate the risks of complex systems and emerging technologies, such as the human-climate nexus and automation technologies, and to inform pathways and policies. Due to the interconnected and evolutionary features of such topics, risk analysts must navigate the dynamics of changing assumptions and probabilities in the risk assessment. However, the current risk analysis approach neglects to a large extent an explicit consideration of these dynamics, either oversimplifying complex systems or neglecting the likely human response to emerging technologies. In this article, we outline why the evolutionary dynamics of assumptions and probabilities in a risk assessment must receive close attention, and then we provide a possible framework through which to consider the dynamics. Ultimately, we propose a formal approach to conceptualizing and implementing the risk description with respect to feedback loops and complex adaptive systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":21472,"journal":{"name":"Risk Analysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143586546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Risk AnalysisPub Date : 2025-03-03DOI: 10.1111/risa.70005
Baozhuang Niu, Zebin Zheng, Lingfeng Wang
{"title":"Information value versus flexibility cost: Comparison of dual sourcing and artificial intelligence sourcing for resilient supply.","authors":"Baozhuang Niu, Zebin Zheng, Lingfeng Wang","doi":"10.1111/risa.70005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.70005","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In global trade practices, varying inspection and quarantine standards frequently cause import disruptions. To manage such customs risk, artificial intelligence (AI)-based intelligent sourcing strategy and traditional dual-sourcing strategy are two widely used strategies to guarantee supply resilience. In this study, we formulate the main trade-offs to adopt AI sourcing, including the information analytics value, the increased flexibility cost, and the altered competition/cooperation structure among the stakeholders. We find that the importer would prefer the AI-sourcing strategy when the customs disruption probability is high, and the local production cost is moderate. Moreover, the cost-efficiency of the AI-sourcing strategy is usually lower than the expectation due to the supplier's pricing behavior. When it comes to the resilience indicator evaluation, we find that, surprisingly, the importer is more likely to be cost-oriented rather than resilience-oriented. Therefore, pursuing resilience cannot be always attractive but low cost can. Even though the advent of AI sourcing will not change this insight.</p>","PeriodicalId":21472,"journal":{"name":"Risk Analysis","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143543261","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}