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Shows how to quantify risk and construct probability in conjunction with real-world decision-making problems, including a host of institutional, organizational, political, and cultural considerations. This book presents basic concepts, as well as advanced material, avoiding higher mathematics whenever possible.

The establishment of the international risk governance council (IRGC) was the direct result of widespread concern within the public sector, the corporate world, academia, and society at large that the complexity and interdependence of health, environmental, and technological risks facing the world was making the development and implementation of adequate risk governance strategies ever more ...

Risk management combines considerable quantitative skills with practical and intuitive competencies. Presenting both mathematical aspects and practical skills, this book introduces the foundations of risk management and shows how these concepts are used to create practical risk management systems.

Four of the world's leading risk researchers present a fundamental critique of the prevailing approach to understanding and managing risk - the rational actor paradigm . They show how risk studies must incorporate the competing interests, values, and rationalities of those involved.

This work arose out of the author's awareness that there was little material relating to the assessment of risks for people with learning disabilities. It aims to provide a readily understood explanation of the concept of risk.

We live in a 'risk society' where the identification, distribution and management of risks, from new technology, environmental factors or other sources are crucial to our individual and social existence.

Suitable for researchers and graduate students in the areas of applied probability and insurance risk.

Provides a comprehensive coverage of both the how and why of metal failures. This book attempts to gives engineers the intellectual tools and practical understanding needed to analyze failures from a structural point of view.

This title introduces a fresh approach to managing risk in investment portfolios. Up to now analysis has been focused on estimating the potential risks of individuals assets - but far less on the implications for the overall risk of a portfolio.

This work examines how decisions about risk and uncertainty relate to moral principles and ethical conduct. The papers analyse the broader social, political, economic and cultural dimensions of risk and morality.

Volume two centres on the analysis and management of risk in society, in international business and multinationals, and globally. The 'acceptability' of risk to an individual depends on the context, whether the larger society or in, say, a corporate framework.

Volume 1 collects their fundamental work on how risks are communicated among different publics and stakeholders, including local communities, corporations and the larger society.

Trust is an important factor in risk management, affecting judgements of risk and benefit, technology acceptance and other forms of cooperation. This work explores various aspects of trust as it relates to risk management and communication. It integrates diverse research traditions and provides insights into the phenomenon of trust.

The contributors cover the new risks associated with the emergence of new technologies, genetic and cybernetic. They also demonstrate why the main arguments covered before -- centred on environmental, health and personal risk -- reverberate throughout social theory.

This edition of Risk Communication and Public Health brings together a wide variety of perspectives on risk communication, from the health professions, academia, campaigning organisations, government and its advisory committees, independent consultancies and think tanks.

Examines uncertainty in risk management and practice in emergency management, intelligence, law enforcement, policy, politics and music. This book builds on major conceptual strands in uncertainty thinking and seeks to develop an integrated view of the nature of uncertainty, and strategies for coping and managing under uncertainty.

A guide to effective management of technology and communications risks. It covers: accessibility of information; acceptable use of information; directors legal duties; general legal compliance; protecting networks from external and internal threats; encouraging security awareness at management and employee level; and reputational risk management.

Offers an analysis of the Columbia disaster and the organizational lessons that can be learned from it. This title includes contributions from those involved in the Investigation Board report into the incident.

Explores issues such as the measurement of risk in its social context, the idea that the mass media or the political opposition always exaggerate risk, and the notion that the advice of the expert is the best we can get as far as risks are concerned.