Dealing with high-stakes risk potentials is dependent on getting to grips with easy to understand, yet difficult to apply, criteria for decision. With a fresh, honest approach, this book shows why scientific assessments of catastrophic risk based on averages don't work, and sets the stage for making the tough choice between precaution and fatalism.
Dealing with high-stakes risk potentials is dependent on getting to grips with easy to understand, yet difficult to apply, criteria for decision. With...
In this book, Mark Jablonowski, author of Precautionary Risk Management: Dealing with Catastrophic Loss Potentials in Business, the Community and Society (Palgrave Macmillan 2006), identifies the potential pitfalls of applying precautionary strategies to high-stakes risks that have already become entrenched.This book explores risk dilemmas and how to avoid them. These dilemmas arise in high-stakes situations where the cost to prevent or avoid risk (i.e., precaution) approaches the adverse potential of the risk itself. We become, in effect, "doomed if we do, doomed if we don't." High profile...
In this book, Mark Jablonowski, author of Precautionary Risk Management: Dealing with Catastrophic Loss Potentials in Business, the Community and Soci...
The threat we face from high-stakes risk has never been higher. These challenges include environmental pollution, fragile financial systems and the threat of widespread geopolitical violence. This book suggests that a return to natural risk levels those in accordance with naturally occurring background levels is both desirable and achievable."
The threat we face from high-stakes risk has never been higher. These challenges include environmental pollution, fragile financial systems and the th...
