Explaining Risk Analysis
Protecting health and the environment
Seiten
2016
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-12533-9 (ISBN)
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-12533-9 (ISBN)
Risk analysis is not a narrowly defined set of applications. Rather, it is widely used to assess and manage a plethora of hazards that threaten dire implications. However, too few people actually understand what risk analysis can help us accomplish and, even among experts, knowledge is often limited to one or two applications.
Explaining Risk Analysis frames risk analysis as a holistic planning process aimed at making better risk-informed decisions and emphasizing the connections between the parts. This framework requires an understanding of basic terms, including explanations of why there is no universal agreement about what risk means, much less risk assessment, risk management and risk analysis. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, the book illustrates the ways in which risk analysis can help lead to better decisions in a variety of scenarios, including the destruction of chemical weapons, management of nuclear waste and the response to passenger rail threats. The book demonstrates how the risk analysis process and the data, models and processes used in risk analysis will clarify, rather than obfuscate, decision-makers’ options.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of risk assessment, risk management, public health, environmental science, environmental economics and environmental psychology.
Explaining Risk Analysis frames risk analysis as a holistic planning process aimed at making better risk-informed decisions and emphasizing the connections between the parts. This framework requires an understanding of basic terms, including explanations of why there is no universal agreement about what risk means, much less risk assessment, risk management and risk analysis. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, the book illustrates the ways in which risk analysis can help lead to better decisions in a variety of scenarios, including the destruction of chemical weapons, management of nuclear waste and the response to passenger rail threats. The book demonstrates how the risk analysis process and the data, models and processes used in risk analysis will clarify, rather than obfuscate, decision-makers’ options.
This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of risk assessment, risk management, public health, environmental science, environmental economics and environmental psychology.
Michael R. Greenberg is Distinguished Professor and Associate Dean of the Faculty at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University, USA.
1. Risk Analysis: A Start
Part I. Basics
2. Risk Assessment
3. Risk Management
Part II. Cases
4. Destroying Chemical Weapons
5. Environmental Justice
6. Critical Passenger Rail Infrastructure
7. Fresh Water, Land Use, and Global Climate Change
8. Biological Terrorism
Part III. Supplements
9. Risk Analysis and Disaster Science Fiction
10. Risk Analysis Online and on Paper
11. Externally Imposed Challenges for Risk Analysis
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.12.2016 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Earthscan Risk in Society |
| Zusatzinfo | 28 Tables, black and white; 8 Line drawings, black and white; 21 Halftones, black and white; 57 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 612 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie | |
| Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geophysik | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-138-12533-4 / 1138125334 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-12533-9 / 9781138125339 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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