Risk : an introduction : the concepts of risk, danger and chance
"Investments, global warming and crossing the road - risk is a factor embedded in our everyday lives but do we really understand what it means, how it is quantified and how decisions are made? In six chapters Ben Ale explains the concepts, methods and procedures for risk analysis and in doing s...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York :
Routledge ,
c2009
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: what is risk?
- 2. Modelling risk
- 3. The systems approach
- 4. Managing risk
- 5. Risky information: the difference between data and knowledge
- 6. Risk and decision making