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Integrated Risk and Vulnerability Management Assisted by Decision Support Systems

Relevance and Impact on Governance

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  • © 2005

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Editors:
  1. Adrian V. Gheorghe

    1. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland

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  • Risk management and governance
  • Quantitative vulnerability assessment
  • Computer assisted risk evaluations on accidental environmental impacts and emergency planning and preparedness
  • Industrial risk assessment

Part of the book series: Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality (TSRQ, volume 8)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiv
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  2. Disaster Risk and Vulnerability Management from Awareness to Practice

    • Adrian V. Gheorghe, V. Dan Vamanu
    Pages 1-320

  3. Quantitative Area Risk Analysis: Available Tools and Open Problems

    • Valerio Cozzani, Severino Zanelli
    Pages 321-348

  4. ARIPAR-GIS, TRAT, OPTIPATH, EHHRA-GIS

    • Gigliola Spadoni, Sarah Bonvicini
    Pages 349-360

  5. Risk Based Decision Making: Three Examples of Practical Application Tools

    • Marcus Abrahamsson, Henrik Johansson, Jerry Nilsson, Sven Erik Magnusson
    Pages 361-381

  6. Catastrophe Risk Management

    • Aniello Amendola, Yuri Ermoliev, Tatiana Ermolieva
    Pages 383-401

  7. Interactive Risk Management

    • Beatrice Capaul
    Pages 403-416

  8. Pilot Project on Environment and Health Rapid Risk Assessment in Secondary Rivers of the Mean and Lower Danube Basin

    • Bruno Frattini, Neil Manning
    Pages 417-439

  9. Facing Modern Times: Challenges in Risk Analysis

    • Ralf Mock
    Pages 441-455

  10. A Research and Development Strategy on Assessment and Management of Technological and Natural Risks

    • Alfredo C. Lucia
    Pages 457-473

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 475-476
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Introduction This book includes terms of reference and offers an augmented volume of relevant work initiated within the comprehensive concept of “Knowledge Management and Risk Governance”. The latter stood for the initial title of an ad-hoc meeting held in Ascona, Switzerland, organized by the Technological Risk Management Unit of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission (JRC) and the KOVERS Centre of Excellence in Risk and Safety Sciences of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich. Background Risk governance, in addition to the continuous interest of researchers, has recently attracted the attention of policy-makers and the media and the concern of the public. New and emerging risks in various fields and a number of risk-related issues increased the public interest and prompted for a new framework in dealing with risks. The Conference on Science and Governance organized by the European Commission in October 2000 is one of the international forums addressing this issue. Other recent events such as the establishment of the International Risk Governance Council outline the importance of the governance concept in relation to that of risk management (see www.irgc.org). At the same time noticeable progress has been made in Information Technologies and Decision Support, passing from the process of information PREFACE xvi to the process of knowledge. In this context new tools and methods became available, whose application in risk management may be beneficial.

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  • Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich, Switzerland

    Adrian V. Gheorghe

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