Acceptable risk /

Acceptable risk / Baruch Fischhoff [and others].

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Fischhoff, Baruch, 1946-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Subjects:
Risk.
Risk management > Decision making.
Table of Contents:
  • List of figures
  • List of tables
  • Preface
  • How safe is safe enough?
  • Definition of the acceptable-risk problem
  • Acceptable risk as a decision problem
  • Overview
  • Summary
  • Why is it so hard to resolve acceptable-risk problems?
  • Five generic complexities
  • Uncertainty about problem definition
  • Difficulties in assessing the facts
  • Difficulties in assessing values
  • Uncertainties about the human element Difficulties in assessing decision quality
  • Track record
  • Summary
  • Choosing an approach to acceptable risk: a metadecision problem
  • Types of approaches
  • Seven criteria for evaluating the acceptability of approaches to acceptable risk
  • Summary
  • Professional judgment
  • How do professionals determine acceptable risk?
  • Generic problems
  • How adequate is professional judgment for resolving acceptable-risk questions?
  • Summary
  • Bootstrapping
  • Methods of bootstrapping
  • Generic problems
  • How adequate are bootstrapping methods for resolving acceptable-risk questions?
  • Summary
  • Formal analysis
  • Cost-benefit analysis
  • Decision analysis
  • Variants of cost-benefit analysis
  • Decision analysis
  • Generic problems
  • How adequate are analytic techniques for resolving acceptable-risk problems?
  • Summary
  • Comparison of approaches
  • Global ratings
  • Choosing an approach
  • Summary
  • What have we learned?
  • General conclusions about acceptable-risk decisions
  • Summary
  • Recommendations for improving acceptable-risk decision making
  • Recommendations for the technical community
  • Recommendations for public involvement
  • Recommendations for the marketplace
  • Recommendations for government
  • Summary
  • What do we need to learn?
  • Research to reduce uncertainty about problem definition
  • Research to reduce uncertainty about the facts
  • Research to reduce uncertainty about values
  • Research to reduce uncertainty about the human element
  • Research to reduce uncertainty about decision quality
  • An experimenting academe
  • An experimenting society
  • References
  • Additional readings
  • Index.

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