Improving Risk Analysis

Improving Risk Analysis discusses and illustrates practical methods for assessing, communicating, and managing uncertain risks when the probabilities of consequences caused by alternative actions cannot be quantified with useful confidence, accuracy, and precision. This monograph demonstrates how to...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cox, Jr., Louis Anthony. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, 185
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Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6058-9
Table of Contents:
  • Causality for Risk Analysts: Improving Our Understanding of How the World Works
  • Improving Individual Risk Management Decisions: Learning from Experience and Coping with Model Uncertainty
  • Improving Community Risk Management: Managing Disaster Risks
  • Improving Organizational Risk Management
  • Improving Defense Against Intelligent Adversaries
  • Managing Real and Percieved Risks: Animal Antibiotics and Drug-Resistant Infections
  • Rethinking the Health Benefits fo Air Pollution Control
  • Air Pollution and Health Risk Inequality
  • A Causal Model of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
  • Exposure-Response Thresholds for Lung Disease
  • An Exposure-Response Threshold for Lung Diseases and Lung Cancer Caused by Crystalline Silica
  • Nonlinear Effects of Smoking on Coronary Heart Disease Risk
  • Do Cold Weather and Fine Particulate Matter Air Pollution Cause Early Deaths in the Elderly?
  • Conclusions and Recommendations: What Have We Learned?.