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Overview and definition of risk: Its assessment and management

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Year
1984

Citation

Cohen, A. V., 1984, Overview and definition of risk: Its assessment and management: Environment International, v. 10, iss. 5-6, p. 359-366.

Summary

Risk assessment includes both risk estimation (identifying hazards and estimating their outcomes and probabilities) and risk evaluation (determining the significance or value of risks to those concerned with or affected by the decision). Risk estimation is about situations, and risk evaluation about the effect on people. Few situations are absolutely safe. Risks need to be estimated, and for many kinds of risk (e.g., exposures to potentially toxic substances or to potentially catastrophic situations) an expert view has to be formed, which must take account of associated uncertainties. Different sections of the public perceive risk in different ways, and regard some risks more seriously than the expert estimates. Thus studies of risk [...]

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Cohen, A. V.

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DOI WECC []
ISSN WECC 0160-4120

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