Precautionary Risk Management [electronic resource] : Dealing with Catastrophic Loss Potentials in Business, The Community and Society /
Jablonowski, M.author.
Dealing with high-stakes risk potentials is dependent on getting to grips with easy to understand, yet difficult to apply, criteria for decision. With a fresh, honest approach, this book shows why scientific assessments of catastrophic risk based on averages don't work, and sets the stage for making the tough choice between precaution and fatalism.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Preface: A World of Hazards; Acknowledgements; 1 Statistical Risk and its Treatment; 2 The ABC's of High-Stakes Decisions; 3 Practical Precaution; 4 Precaution and Progress: Identifying Alternatives; 5 Public Policy and the Rise of Precautionary Regulation; 6 Science and Precaution; 7 Communicating about Risk; 8 The Future of Risk; Appendix A: A Working Model of Precaution; Appendix B: The Precautionary Risk Manager's Bookshelf; Appendix C: A Concise Statement of the ""Precautionary Principle""; Appendix D: A Glossary of High-Stakes Risk Management
Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dealing with high-stakes risk potentials is dependent on getting to grips with easy to understand, yet difficult to apply, criteria for decision. With a fresh, honest approach, this book shows why scientific assessments of catastrophic risk based on averages don't work, and sets the stage for making the tough choice between precaution and fatalism.
Risk management.
Macroeconomics.
Risk Management.
Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.