Risk Dilemmas

Forced Choices and Survival
2007. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-230-53871-9
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 137 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 308 g

This book identifies the pitfalls of applying precautionary strategies to high-stakes risks that have already become entrenched. Precaution must be applied on a precautionary basis, considering alternative paths to progress that maintain natural risk levels. This requires a radical rethinking of the way we define and achieve progress.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jablonowski, M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction A Review of High-Stakes Risk Criteria Finding Alternatives to Risk Risk Avoidance: All or Nothing Precaution in Context A Reassessment of Risk Assessment Can We Avoid Risk Dilemmas? Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

MARK JABLONOWSKI is a professional risk manager, analyst and researcher with over thirty years of experience. During this time he has published over fifty papers in a variety of scholarly and professional publications, on the subjects of risk management and the economics of risk. He has also served as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Hartford (West Hartford, Connecticut, USA). Mr. Jablonowski is founder and principal of Intuitive Risk, a centre for the study of high-stakes risk.