Risk in Extreme Environments Assessment Preparing Avoiding Mitigating and Managing 1st Edition by Vicki Bier ISBN 1032837152 978-1032837154

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ISBN 10: 1032837152 

ISBN 13: 978-1032837154

Author: Vicki Bier

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.

Table of contents:

Part 1: Assessing the Risks of Extreme Events

Chapter 1: Probabilistic Risk Analysis

Chapter 2: The Meaning of Black Swans

Part 2: Managing the Risks of Extreme Events

Chapter 3: High Performance in Extreme Environments

Chapter 4: Decision Making on Trial: The Extreme Situation at Fukushima Dai Ichi

Chapter 5: Prevention versus Response: Applications in the Management of Disease

Chapter 6: The Feasibility and Value of Adaptive Strategies for Extreme Risks

Part 3: Perceptions of Extreme Risks

Chapter 7: It Won’t Happen to Me: The Behavioral Impact of Extreme Risks

Chapter 8: Social Amplification of Risk and Extreme Events

Part 4: Case Studies of Extreme Risks

Chapter 9: Safety and Severe Accidents in Nuclear Reactors

Chapter 10: Mitigating Extreme Infectious Disease Disaster Risk

Chapter 11: Global Catastrophes: The Most Extreme Risks

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