Risk Management and Governance: Concepts, Guidelines and Applications

by Terje Aven and Ortwin Renn

Book Overview

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 and the social science perspectives. The book provides...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642139256
• ISBN13: 9783642139253
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"