Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Research and DevelopmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Social Decision-making for High Consequence, Low Probability Occurrences
Author: United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Research and DevelopmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Social Decision-making for High Consequence, Low Probability Occurrences
Author: Social decision-making for high consequence, low probability occurences
Author: National Planning AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Decision making
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Low-Probability High-Consequence Risk Analysis
Author: Ray WallerPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1475718187
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
In recent years public attention has focused on an array of low-probability/high-consequence (LC/HC) events that pose a signif icant threat to human health, safety, and the environment. At the same time, public and private sector responsibilities for the assessment and management of such events have grown because of a perceived need to anticipate, prevent, or reduce the risks. In attempting to meet these responsibilities, legislative, judicial, regulatory, and private sector institutions have had to deal with the extraordinarily complex problem of assessing and balancing LP/ HC risks against the costs and ben if its of risk reduction. The need to help society cope with LP/HC events such as nuclear power plant accidents, toxic spills, chemical plant explosions, and transportation accidents has given rise to the development of a new intellectual endeavor: LP/HC risk analysis. The scope and complexity of these analyses require a high degree of cooperative effort on the part of specialists from many f~elds. Analyzing technical, social, and value issues requires the efforts of physicists, biologists, geneticists, statisticians, chemists, engineers, political scientists, sociologists, decision analysts, management scientists, economists, psychologists, ethicists, lawyers, and policy analysts. Included in this volume are papers by authors in each of these disciplines. The papers share in common a focus on one or more of the following questions that are generic to the analysis of LP/HC risks.
Social Decision-making for High Consequence, Low Probability Occurrences
Author: Preparing for High-Impact, Low-Probability Events
Author: Bernice LeePublisher: Chatham House (Formerly Riia)
ISBN: 9781862032538
Category : Emergency communication systems
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The frequency of "high-impact, low-probability" (HILP) events in the last decade--such as Hurricane Katrina, the T hoku earthquake and tsunami, and major floods in Pakistan and Thailand--signals the emergence of a new "normal." In a world of globalized production and optimized supply chains, the impacts of HILP events spread rapidly and are felt on an international scale. This report examines the effects of the volcanic ash cloud that spread across Europe in April 2010 and draws lessons for other HILP events. It considers whether governments and the private sector are sufficiently prepared, how the global economy could be made more resilient, and the role of communications in a crisis."
Indexes
Author: United States. Environmental Protection AgencyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1760
Book Description
NUREG/CR.
Author: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory CommissionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Societal Decision Making for Low Probability Events
Author: Howard KunreutherDrought risk management: a strategic approach
Author: Speed, RobertPublisher: UNESCO Publishing
ISBN: 9231000942
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description