222 results match your criteria: "Institute for Environmental Decisions[Affiliation]"
Risk Anal
November 2024
Institute for Environmental Decisions (IED), ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Culture can have a major impact on how we perceive different hazards. In the Romantic period, nature was described and portrayed as mysterious and benevolent. A deep connection to nature was perceived as important.
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January 2025
Consumer Behavior, Institute for Environmental Decisions (IED), ETH Zurich (ETHZ), CH.
Porcine Health Manag
October 2024
Consumer Behaviour, Institute for Environmental Decisions, ETH Zürich, Universitätstrasse 22, 8092, Zürich, Switzerland.
Nat Commun
October 2024
Institute for Environmental Decisions, ETH Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Tropical cyclones (TCs) displace millions every year. While TCs pose hardships and threaten lives, their negative impacts can be reduced by anticipatory actions like evacuation and humanitarian aid coordination. In addition to weather forecasts, impact forecast enables more effective response by providing richer information on the numbers and locations of people at risk of displacement.
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September 2024
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int
August 2024
Consumer Behavior, Institute for Environmental Decisions (IED), ETH Zurich, CHN J 75.2, Universitaetstrasse 22, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
Food Chem Toxicol
June 2024
Consumer Behavior, Institute for Environmental Decisions, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
Next-Generation Risk Assessment (NGRA) aims to implement New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) into risk assessment and to rely on new in vivo testing in animals only as a last resort. However, various technical and regulatory hurdles impede their regulatory implementation. Assumptions about the public's expectations could act as barriers to the acceptance of NAMs.
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October 2024
Consumer Behavior, Institute for Environmental Decisions, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Three decades ago, several articles on the subjectivity in chemical risk judgments (i.e., labeled "intuitive toxicology") measured the divide between the public and toxicologists with different backgrounds regarding the validity of predicting health effects based on in vivo studies.
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March 2024
Institute for Environmental Decisions, ETH Zurich, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland.
Natural hazards pose significant risks to people and assets in many regions of the world. Quantifying associated risks is crucial for many applications such as adaptation option appraisal and insurance pricing. However, traditional risk assessment approaches have focused on the impacts of single hazards, ignoring the effects of multi-hazard risks and potentially leading to underestimations or overestimations of risks.
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February 2024
Center for Science Communication Research, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon, United States.
The terms "New Genomic Techniques" (NGTs) or "Genome Editing" refer to various methods that allow finding, cleaving, and repairing specific sequences in the genome. These techniques could contribute to managing various challenges in plant breeding and agriculture. Aside from regulatory uncertainties, the lack of consumer acceptance has frequently been cited as a significant barrier to the widespread use of NGTs in plant breeding and agriculture across the planet.
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January 2024
Agroscope, Plant-Soil Interactions Group, 8046, Zurich, Switzerland.
Risk Anal
June 2024
The Weather Company, an IBM Business, Andover, Massachusetts, USA.
Demands to manage the risks of artificial intelligence (AI) are growing. These demands and the government standards arising from them both call for trustworthy AI. In response, we adopt a convergent approach to review, evaluate, and synthesize research on the trust and trustworthiness of AI in the environmental sciences and propose a research agenda.
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October 2023
Spatial Epidemiology Laboratory, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Human group B Streptococcus (GBS) infections attributable to an invasive, hypervirulent sequence type (ST) 283 have been associated with freshwater fish consumption in Asia. The origin, geographic dispersion pathways and host transitions of GBS ST283 remain unresolved. We gather 328 ST283 isolate whole-genome sequences collected from humans and fish between 1998 and 2021, representing eleven countries across four continents.
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November 2023
School of Veterinary Medicine & Science, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonington LE12 5RD, UK.
Appropriate management decisions are key for sustainable and profitable beef and dairy farming. Data-driven technologies aim to provide information which can improve farmers' decision-making practices. However, data-driven technologies have resulted in the emergence of a "data divide", in which there is a gap between the generation and use of data.
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May 2024
Consumer Behavior, Institute for Environmental Decisions (IED), ETH Zurich (ETHZ), Zürich, Switzerland.
This study investigated preschool children's categorization and risk perception of products with ambiguous product characteristics (e.g., food-like packaging).
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August 2023
Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
Heat-related mortality has been identified as one of the key climate extremes posing a risk to human health. Current research focuses largely on how heat mortality increases with mean global temperature rise, but it is unclear how much climate change will increase the frequency and severity of extreme summer seasons with high impact on human health. In this probabilistic analysis, we combined empirical heat-mortality relationships for 748 locations from 47 countries with climate model large ensemble data to identify probable past and future highly impactful summer seasons.
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October 2023
Institute of Evolutionary Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
Background: 3D laser-based photonic scanners are increasingly used in health studies to estimate body composition. However, too little is known about whether various 3D body scan measures estimate body composition better than single standard anthropometric measures, and which body scans best estimate it. Furthermore, little is known about differences by sex and age.
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November 2023
Consumer Behavior, Institute for Environmental Decisions (IED), ETH Zurich (ETHZ), Switzerland.
Warnings on the labels of hazardous household chemicals (e.g. warning pictograms and use instructions) should create risk awareness and thus encourage safe storage, handling and disposal.
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May 2023
Deltares, Delft, Netherlands.
Unlabelled: Fiscal resilience against disasters is vital for the recovery in the aftermath of climate hazards. Without swift access to available funds for disaster relief, damages to human and the economy would be further exacerbated. How insurance may influence fiscal performance over time and can increase fiscal resilience for today and under a future climate has not been looked at yet in detail.
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June 2023
Zurich University of the Arts, Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology, 8031 Zürich, Switzerland.
Risk Anal
February 2024
Global Product Stewardship, Research & Development, Singapore Innovation Center, Procter & Gamble (P&G) International Operations, Singapore, Singapore.
In the coronavirus disease 2019 era, biocidal products are increasingly used for controlling harmful organisms, including microorganisms. However, assuring safety against adverse health effects is a critical issue from a public health standpoint. This study aimed to provide an overview of key aspects of risk assessment, management, and communication that ensure the safety of biocidal active ingredients and products.
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September 2023
ETH Zurich, Institute for Environmental Decisions (IED), Consumer Behavior Universitätsstrasse 22, CHN J76.3, CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland. Electronic address:
The production of food, especially meat, has a high environmental impact. Many believe that the introduction of alternative proteins could substantially reduce animal meat consumption, resulting in a more sustainable food system. In this review, we critically evaluate the challenges and barriers that need to be overcome to ensure that these alternative proteins have the desired effects.
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May 2022
Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB), Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Building stock management is becoming a global societal and political issue, inter alia because of growing sustainability concerns. Comprehensive and openly accessible building stock data can enable impactful research exploring the most effective policy options. In Europe, efforts from citizen and governments generated numerous relevant datasets but these are fragmented and heterogeneous, thus hindering their usability.
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