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  • Quantitative Risk Assessment

    The Scientific Platform

    by Terje Aven ...
    Quantitative risk assessments cannot eliminate risk, nor can they resolve trade-offs. They can, however, guide principled risk management and reduction - if the quality of assessment is high and decision makers understand how to use it. This book builds a unifying scientific framework for discussing and evaluating the quality of risk assessments and whether they are fit for purpose. Uncertainty is ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • A History of Risk Science

    Concepts and Principles of Risk Analysis

    by Terje Aven ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies
    Risk has been handled as long as there have been humans on Earth. However, the risk field is a young discipline; systematic attempts to access and handle risk – explicitly conceptualizing and expressing risk – in society are a recent endeavour. This book presents a history of risk science and risk analysis highlighting concepts and principles for understanding, assessing, communicating, managing ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Science of Risk Analysis

    Foundation and Practice

    by Terje Aven ...
    This book provides a comprehensive demonstration of risk analysis as a distinct science covering risk understanding, assessment, perception, communication, management, governance and policy. It presents and discusses the key pillars of this science, and provides guidance on how to conduct high-quality risk analysis.The Science of Risk Analysis seeks to strengthen risk analysis as a field and ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Foundations of Risk Analysis

    by Terje Aven ...
    Foundations of Risk Analysis presents the issues core to risk analysis – understanding what risk means, expressing risk, building risk models, addressing uncertainty, and applying probability models to real problems. The author provides the readers with the knowledge and basic thinking they require to successfully manage risk and uncertainty to support decision making. This updated edition ... Read more

    $84.99 CAD

  • Risk, Surprises and Black Swans

    Fundamental Ideas and Concepts in Risk Assessment and Risk Management

    by Terje Aven ...
    Risk, Surprises and Black Swans provides an in depth analysis of the risk concept with a focus on the critical link to knowledge; and the lack of knowledge, that risk and probability judgements are based on.Based on technical scientific research, this book presents a new perspective to help you understand how to assess and manage surprising, extreme events, known as ‘Black Swans’. This approach ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Risk Analysis

    by Terje Aven ...
    A practical guide to the varied challenges presented in the ever-growing field of risk analysis.Risk Analysis presents an accessible and concise guide to performing risk analysis, in a wide variety of field, with minimal prior knowledge required. Forming an ideal companion volume to Aven's previous Wiley text Foundations of Risk Analysis, it provides clear recommendations and guidance in the ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Risk Science

    An Introduction

    by Terje Aven, Shital Thekdi ...
    Risk science is becoming increasingly important as businesses, policymakers and public sector leaders are tasked with decision-making and investment using varying levels of knowledge and information. Risk Science: An Introduction explores the theory and practice of risk science, providing concepts and tools for understanding and acting under conditions of uncertainty.The chapters in this book ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Reliability Achievement

    The commercial incentive

    by Terje Aven ...
    This book represents the proceedings of the 10th annual symposium of the Society of Reliability Engineers, Scandinavian Chapter, and was held in Stavanger, Norway, 9-11 October 1989. The theme of the symposium emphasised the need for obtaining a competitive edge through reliability in systems engineering and addressed the role of reliability in marketing, contracts, customer support and product ... Read more

    $375.99 CAD

  • Enterprise Risk Management

    Advances on its Foundation and Practice

    by Terje Aven, Shital Thekdi ...
    Enterprise Risk Management: Advances on its Foundation and Practice relates the fundamental enterprise risk management (ERM) concepts and current generic risk assessment and management principles that have been influential in redefining the risk field over the last decade. It defines ERM with a particular focus on understanding the nexus between risk, uncertainty, knowledge and performance.The ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Reliability and Risk Analysis

    by Terje Aven ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Analysis of reliability and risk is an important and integral part of planning, construction and operation of all technical systems. To be able to perform such analyses systematically and scientifically, there is usually a need for special methods and models. This book presents the most important of these. Particular emphasis has been placed on the ideas and the motivation for the use of the ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Risk Management and Governance

    Concepts, Guidelines and Applications

    by Terje Aven, Ortwin Renn ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Risk is a popular topic in many sciences - in natural, medical, statistical, engineering, social, economic and legal disciplines. Yet, no single discipline can grasp the full meaning of risk. Investigating risk requires a multidisciplinary approach. The authors, coming from two very different disciplinary traditions, meet this challenge by building bridges between the engineering, the statistical ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

  • Think Risk

    A Practical Guide to Actively Managing Risk

    by Shital Thekdi, Terje Aven ...
    Risk is the single most prevalent and enduring factor that influences every individual, organization, and society. People often seek protection from negative risk events, but also seek to take advantage of opportunities arising from positive risk events. We may feel overwhelmed by messages encountered in daily interactions with media and society, contributing to a sense of ambiguity over how to ... Read more

    $93.99 CAD