Värdering av katastrofers miljökonsekvenser

Sammanfattning: When a disaster occurs the main focus is on the loss of human lives. Here the environmental effects have been in the centre of attention. This work has had two main purposes. The first one was to formulate attributes, variables that together present a complete picture of the consequences that an event has had on the environment. The other main purpose was to investigate how people value the impact that a disaster can have on the environment. This was made using the tradeoff?method for one of the attributes, the size of the affected area. The people who conducted the survey were students attending two different educations at Lund Institute of Technology. The first aim was achieved through the making of a tree structure containing seven attributes with ten adherent measures. Eight of the measurements that are used to describe the attributes are quantitative. The other two can be adjusted depending on the type of disaster that is being evaluated. One main conclusion that the results present is that the majority of the participants are risk seekers. To be able to draw any more general conclusions about peoples values all the attributes would have to be studied and the correlation between them would have to be examined.