Risk in Extreme Environments - Couverture souple

Bier, Vicki M.

 
9781032837154: Risk in Extreme Environments
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1032837152 ISBN 13 : 9781032837154
Editeur : Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

Risk in Extreme Environments presents a wide-ranging discussion of approaches for assessing and managing extreme risks. Extreme events are not only severe, but also outside the normal range of experience of the system in question, and can include environmental catastrophe; engineering failure; financial or business meltdown; and nuclear or other extreme terrorism. The book focuses on synthesizing research results in a way that provides insights useful to decision makers, and enables them to ask probing questions about the risks faced by their organizations, identify creative solutions, and minimize the neglect of extreme risks that can come from a focus on mundane or ordinary management challenges.

The book details case studies on nuclear power, infectious diseases, and global catastrophic risks, in addition to sections on risk assessment, risk management, and risk perceptions. Since effective management benefits from an interdisciplinary perspective, the chapter authors include experts in economics, engineering, geography, law, political science, psychology, sociology, and science in addition to risk analysis.

Risk in Extreme Environments is an accessible and valuable resource for risk managers and other decision makers responsible for large complex business and government decisions, while also providing enough detail and references to be informative for risk analysts interested in learning more about technical aspects of the various methods.

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À propos de l?auteur

Dr. Bier is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has written a number of papers on extreme risk, and is a coauthor or editor of four books in addition to this one.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1032837152
ISBN 13 
9781032837154
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
206
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1472439902 ISBN 13 :  9781472439901
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