The Illusion of Risk Control: What Does it Take to Live With Uncertainty?

• Autore principale: Gilles Motet (auth)
• Altri autori: Corinne Bieder (auth)
• Natura: Elettronico Capitolo di libro
• Lingua: inglese
• Pubblicazione: Springer Nature 2017
• Serie: SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
• Soggetti: Management of specific areas; risk management; risk assessment; high-risk organisations; safety; FonCSI; black swans; complexity in risk management
• Accesso online: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This book explores the implications of acknowledging uncertainty and black swans for regulation of high-hazard technologies, for stakeholder acceptability of potentially hazardous activities and for risk governance. The conventional approach to risk assessment, which combines the likelihood of an ev...