New courses, the scholars write, should stress "risk management, the design of incentive systems, regulatory oversight, the degree of interconnectedness of the global economy and the limitations of mathematical models".
The identified building blocks of specific heat stress risk provide urban planners with useful information to mitigate adverse effects caused by future heat waves.
The objective of this study is to investigate associations between work-related stress risk factors and a set of health outcomes, in a sample of public sector employees.
The packages of August 2011 and July 2012 were taken under episodes of fiscal stress (risk premium at historical heights), and therefore their effects on GDP could be confounded by the effect of the concomitant financial turmoil.
In ordinary least-squares regression models that contained demographic characteristics, stress risk factors, and social psychological resources as independent variables, level of exposure to the disaster was associated with poorer Wave 2 physical well-being, but not psychological health.
Four waves of surveys took place before and four after the incinerator started working, including the assessment of psychological symptoms (anxiety, depression and stress), risk perception, attitudes towards the incinerator and environmental annoyance.
