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Translating nature into risk: preliminary insights and further questions

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  • Palermo, Tommaso
  • Pirozzi, Lorenzo

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Nature risks are a central challenge for companies and society (Dasgupta, 2021; TNFD, 2024; World Economic Forum, 2025), and a compelling area of study for scholars interested in measurement, the construction of “risk objects” (Hilgartner, 1992) and their translation into risk management action (Hardy et al., 2020). As the (fictional) vignette shows, it is difficult, often impossible, to capture the full set of trade‑offs arising from well‑intentioned decisions. What is at stake is sound data sources and measures, as well as clarity about values‑based judgment on which risks, and how much risk, companies are willing to take. This report presents preliminary findings from a study funded by the LSE Global School of Sustainability (webpage). The report explores these themes and how data availability, measurement and risk considerations can construct new objects of concern—even something as complex and multifaceted as nature—and make them amenable to management

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  • Palermo, Tommaso & Pirozzi, Lorenzo, 2026. "Translating nature into risk: preliminary insights and further questions," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 137011, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    • Handle: RePEc:ehl:lserod:137011
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    • G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
    • R14 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Land Use Patterns
    • J01 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics: General

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