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Viscusi is Vanderbilt’s first University Distinguished Professor, with appointments in the Owen Graduate School of Management and the Department of Economics as well as in the Law School. He is the award-winning author of more than 20 books and 250 articles, most of which deal with various aspects of health and safety risk. Professor Viscusi is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on cost-benefit analysis, and his estimates of the value of risks to life and health are currently used throughout the federal government. He has served as a consultant to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Federal Aviation Administration, and the U.S. Department of Justice. He was deputy director of the Council on Wage and Price Stability in the Carter administration. He also served on the Science Advisory Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for seven years and is currently on the EPA Homeland Security Committee. Professor Viscusi is the founding editor of the Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, now housed at Vanderbilt. He is also the founding editor of the journal Foundations and Trends: Microeconomics.

Dennis E. Wenger, National Science Foundation

Dennis Wenger is the program director for Infrastructure Systems Management and Extreme Events at the National Science Foundation. He is also the acting program director for the Civil Infrastructure Systems. Previously at Texas A&M University, he was a professor of urban and regional science as well as the founding director and Senior Scholar of the Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center. Professor Wenger has been engaged in research on hazards and disasters for over forty years, focusing on the social and multidisciplinary aspects of natural, technological, and human-induced disasters (emergency management capabilities and response, police and fire planning and response, search and rescue, mass media coverage of disasters, warning systems and public response, factors related to local community recovery success, and disaster beliefs and emergency planning). He is the author of numerous books, research monographs, articles, and papers. Professor Wenger currently serves as one of the nine members of the United Nations Scientific and Technical Committee to the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. For NSF, Professor Wenger serves as the Foundation’s representative to the Roundtable on Disasters of the National Academy of Science, and he is co-chair for science of the Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction of the National Science and Technology Council of the Executive Office of the President.

Richard Zeckhauser, Harvard University

Richard Zeckhauser is Frank P. Ramsey Professor of Political Economy, Kennedy School, Harvard University. In his research—comprising 12 books and 250 articles—and his life, he seeks ways to effectively confront the unknown and the unknowable, hence to be a rational economist. He played bridge with Howard Kunreuther in high school. With that training, he won his first major national bridge championship in 1967, and another in 2007, after returning to the game after a significant hiatus. His most recent books are Targeting in Social Programs: Avoiding Bad Bets, Removing Bad Apples, with Peter Schuck (Brookings Institution Press, 2006), The Patron’s Payoff: Conspicuous Commissions in Italian Renaissance Art, with Jonathan Nelson (Princeton University Press, 2008), and 2+2=5: Private Roles for Public Goals, with John Donahue (forthcoming).

INDEX

Academics, paradigm shift for

Actions

consequences and

Actuarial value, reinsurance and (fig.)(table)(fig.)

Adaptation

Advocacy Coalition Framework

Affect

Affordability

Agency problem

AIG. See American International Group

Akerlof, George

Alaska earthquake

Allais, Maurice

Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS)

Alternative plans

aggregate/individual valuation of

Ambiguity

attitudes toward

aversion

different sources(table)

future and

insurance and

reducing

uncertainty