Distributing Risks

Title

Distributing Risks: Allocation Principles for Distributing Reversible and Irreversible Losses

 Author

Doorn, N. (TU Delft Ethics & Philosophy of Technology) ORCID 0000-0002-1090-579X

 Date

2018

 Abstract

This paper aims to develop a framework for distributing risks. Based on a distinction between risks with reversible losses and risks with irreversible losses, I defend the following composite allocation principle: first, irreversible risks should be allocated on the basis of needs and only after some threshold level has been achieved can the remaining risks distributed in such a way that the total disvalue of these losses is minimized. An important advantage of this allocation framework is that it does not require the aggregation of incommensurable values into one measure.


 Subject

incommensurability
irreversibility
risk allocation
Risk ethics
threshold approach

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 DOI

https://doi.org/10.1080/21550085.2018.1448041

 ISSN

2155-0085

 Source

Ethics, Policy & Environment, 1-14

 Part of collection

Institutional Repository

 Document type

journal article

 Rights

© 2018 N. Doorn
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