Developments in Managing and Exploiting Risk. / Volume I, : Safety Risk Management ; Integrating Economic and Safety Perspectives / / ed. by Kurt J. Engemann, Eirik B. Abrahamsen.

Within the area of safety, different perspectives exist on how to provide an adequate basis for managing risk. Safety experts emphasize the cautionary principle, stating that in the face of uncertainty, caution should be the dominant standard. On the other hand, relying on economic assessment often...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
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Place / Publishing House:München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:Developments in Managing and Exploiting Risk ; Volume I
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XIV, 232 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Advances in safety risk management
  • Contents
  • Part I: Fundamentals
  • 1. Exploiting risk using a comfort-based approach
  • 2. Aligning safety science and econometric approaches to risk in complex safety-critical risk scenarios
  • 3. Approaching transboundary wicked security risk problem through the lens of costs and benefits
  • 4. The precautionary principle and game theory
  • 5. Major accident risk and the use of cost-benefit analysis
  • 6. iMaHP – Integrated assessment of quantitative and qualitative criteria for CIP security alternatives
  • Part II: Applications
  • 7. Inspection Manager – An innovative tool for the selection of risk reduction measures in chemical and process industry
  • 8. How to achieve dynamic decision principles for maintenance planning of safety critical equipment in the oil and gas industry
  • 9. Toward the exploitative potential of practices in American stock car racing for safety and reliability
  • 10. An extended framework for prioritizing physical safety measures to handle flood and landslide risks
  • 11. The changing role of cost-benefit analysis in road safety policy analyses in Norway
  • 12. Safety investment decisions in the chemical industry: Common approaches and case studies
  • 13. How to assess socio-political impacts of safety and security measures
  • Contributors
  • Index