Distribution Functions for Environmental and Social Risk Management
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainability in Geographic Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 December 2020) | Viewed by 2031
Special Issue Editors
Interests: statistics; parametric inference; distribution functions; survival analysis
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Interests: distribution theory; copula function; inference; income distribution; stochastic frontier analysis
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In different fields of human life, risk management and prediction are crucial activities. The environmental, social and health fields are just few examples of contexts where the quantification and prediction of risk are fundamental in order to improve human life conditions and preserve people from hazards to life, and other damages and economic losses. In this sense, the quantitative evaluation of these aspects represents a more relevant challenge than ever, and the statistical sciences are fully involved in this aim. In particular, random variables and distribution functions are powerful and effective tools for describing and analysing different aspects of risk, such as perception, extreme events and their recurrence. The selection of a suitable distribution often allows us to properly investigate the characteristics of various phenomena and, eventually, the relationship with some possible determinants. This Special Issue on “Distribution functions for environmental and social risk management” will collect research articles on:
Distribution functions for environmental and geo-hydrologic risk analysis
Prediction and prevention of risks
Distribution functions for social perception risk
Risk measures and their statistical estimation
Measurement of the dependence on extreme events
Use of copula functions for risk analysis
Prof. Francesca Condino
Prof. Domma Filippo
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- distribution functions
- parametric inference
- geo-hydrologic risk
- social perception risk
- environmental risk
- extreme events
- copula functions
