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Risk assessment and management is fundamentally founded on the knowledge available on the system or process under consideration. While this may be self-evident to the laymen, thought leaders within the risk community have come to recognize and emphasize the need to explicitly incorporate knowledge (...
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| Published: |
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,
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| Publisher Address: | Hoboken, NJ : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Risk assessment and management is fundamentally founded on the knowledge available on the system or process under consideration. While this may be self-evident to the laymen, thought leaders within the risk community have come to recognize and emphasize the need to explicitly incorporate knowledge (K) in a systematic, rigorous, and transparent framework for describing and modeling risk. Featuring contributions by an international team of researchers and respected practitioners in the field, this book explores the latest developments in the ongoing effort to use risk assessment as a means for |
| Carrier Form: | xv, 341 pages : illustrations, charts ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781119317890 1119317894 |
| Index Number: | HD61 |
| CLC: | F272.35 |
| Call Number: | F272.35/K734 |
| Contents: | Part I Fundamental Ideas, Principles and Approaches: Risk Assessment with Broad Uncertainty and Knowledge Characterisation: An Illustrating Case Study -- The Enigma of Knowledge in the Risk Field -- Treatment and Communication of Uncertain Assumptions in (Semi-) quantitative Risk Assessments -- Critical Slowing-down Framework for Monitoring Early Warning Signs of Surprise and Unforeseen Events -- Improving the Foundation and Practice of Uncertainty Analysis: Strengthening Links to Knowledge and Risk -- Completeness Uncertainty: Conceptual Clarification and Treatment -- Quality of Risk Assess |