Risk Management and Governance Concepts, Guidelines and Applications /

• Main Authors: Aven, Terje. (Author), Renn, Ortwin. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Risk, Governance and Society ; 16
• Subjects: Economics.; System safety.; Environmental management.; Social sciences > Methodology.; Nanotechnology.; Economics/Management Science.; R & D/Technology Policy.; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Political Science, general.; Environmental Management.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13926-0

Risk is a popular topic in many sciences - in natural, medical, statistical, engineering, social, economic and legal disciplines. Yet, no single discipline can grasp the full meaning of risk. Investigating risk requires a multidisciplinary approach. The authors, coming from two very different discip...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Concept of Risk
• Characteristics of Risks in the Modern World
• Risk Perspectives
• Risk Governance: An Overview
• Pre-Assessment and Framing of Risk
• Risk Appraisal
• Risk Characterization and Evaluation
• Risk Management
• Risk Communication
• Stakeholder and Public Involvement
• Case Study 1: Risk Governance of Nanotechnology
• Case Study 2: Cash Depot and Third Party Risk
• Case Study 3: Year-round Petroleum Activities in the Barents See
• Conclusions.