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Knowledge in risk assessment and management / edited by Terje Aven and Enrico Zio.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018Copyright date: �2018Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781119317906
  • 1119317908
  • 9781119317937
  • 1119317932
  • 1119317894
  • 9781119317890
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Knowledge in risk assessment and management.DDC classification:
  • 658.15/5 23
LOC classification:
  • HD61 .K596 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
List of Contributors vii Preface ix Acknowledgements xv Part I Fundamental Ideas, Principles and Approaches 1 1 Risk Assessment with Broad Uncertainty and Knowledge Characterisation: An Illustrating Case Study 3; Terje Aven and Roger Flage 2 The Enigma of Knowledge in the Risk Field 27; Terje Aven and Marja Yl�onen 3 Treatment and Communication of Uncertain Assumptions in (Semi?]) quantitative Risk Assessments 49; Roger Flage and Christine L.
Berner 4 Critical Slowing?]down Framework for Monitoring Early Warning Signs of Surprise and Unforeseen Events 81; Ivan Damnjanovic and Terje Aven 5 Improving the Foundation and Practice of Uncertainty Analysis: Strengthening Links to Knowledge and Risk 103; Terje Aven 6 Completeness Uncertainty: Conceptual Clarification and Treatment 127; Torbj�rn Bjerga, Terje Aven, and Roger Flage 7 Quality of Risk Assessment: Definition and Verification 143; Terje Aven and Enrico Zio 8 Knowledge?]driven System Simulation for Scenario Analysis in Risk Assessment 165; Pietro Turati, Nicola Pedroni,
And Enrico Zio Part II Risk Assessment and Decision Making 221 9 A Decision Support Method for Prioritizing Investments Subject to Uncertainties 223; Shital Thekdi and Terje Aven 10 Risk Analysis under Structural Uncertainty 241; Sven Ove Hansson Part III Applications 265 11 A Practical Approach to Risk Assessments from Design to Operation of Offshore Oil and Gas Installations 267; Vegard L. Tuft, Beate R. Wagnild, and Olga M. Slyngstad 12 A Semi?]quantitative Approach for Assessment of Risk Trends in the Norwegian Oil and Gas Industry 297; Eirik Bjorheim Abrahamsen, Jon T�mmer�as Selvik, Bj�rnar Heide, and Jan Erik Vinnem 13 Knowledge Engineering at a Risk?]informed Regulatory Agency: Challenges and Suggestions 313; Nathan Siu and Kevin Coyne Index 339.
Summary: With the help of numerous case studies and real-world examples, this must-read book explores the latest developments in the ongoing effort to use risk assessment as a means for characterizing knowledge and/or lack of knowledge about a system or process of interest. -- Edited summary from book.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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List of Contributors vii Preface ix Acknowledgements xv Part I Fundamental Ideas, Principles and Approaches 1 1 Risk Assessment with Broad Uncertainty and Knowledge Characterisation: An Illustrating Case Study 3; Terje Aven and Roger Flage 2 The Enigma of Knowledge in the Risk Field 27; Terje Aven and Marja Yl�onen 3 Treatment and Communication of Uncertain Assumptions in (Semi?]) quantitative Risk Assessments 49; Roger Flage and Christine L.

Berner 4 Critical Slowing?]down Framework for Monitoring Early Warning Signs of Surprise and Unforeseen Events 81; Ivan Damnjanovic and Terje Aven 5 Improving the Foundation and Practice of Uncertainty Analysis: Strengthening Links to Knowledge and Risk 103; Terje Aven 6 Completeness Uncertainty: Conceptual Clarification and Treatment 127; Torbj�rn Bjerga, Terje Aven, and Roger Flage 7 Quality of Risk Assessment: Definition and Verification 143; Terje Aven and Enrico Zio 8 Knowledge?]driven System Simulation for Scenario Analysis in Risk Assessment 165; Pietro Turati, Nicola Pedroni,

And Enrico Zio Part II Risk Assessment and Decision Making 221 9 A Decision Support Method for Prioritizing Investments Subject to Uncertainties 223; Shital Thekdi and Terje Aven 10 Risk Analysis under Structural Uncertainty 241; Sven Ove Hansson Part III Applications 265 11 A Practical Approach to Risk Assessments from Design to Operation of Offshore Oil and Gas Installations 267; Vegard L. Tuft, Beate R. Wagnild, and Olga M. Slyngstad 12 A Semi?]quantitative Approach for Assessment of Risk Trends in the Norwegian Oil and Gas Industry 297; Eirik Bjorheim Abrahamsen, Jon T�mmer�as Selvik, Bj�rnar Heide, and Jan Erik Vinnem 13 Knowledge Engineering at a Risk?]informed Regulatory Agency: Challenges and Suggestions 313; Nathan Siu and Kevin Coyne Index 339.

With the help of numerous case studies and real-world examples, this must-read book explores the latest developments in the ongoing effort to use risk assessment as a means for characterizing knowledge and/or lack of knowledge about a system or process of interest. -- Edited summary from book.

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