Decoding Black Swans and Other Historic Risk Events av Shital Thekdi, Terje (University of Stavanger Norway) Aven

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<P>The field of risk science is continuously evolving to develop principles and practices that enable individuals, organizations, and societies to understand and manage future risk. These risk events are reminders that risk and uncertainty are prevalent, yet it is important to consider what is on the horizon, anticipate the possibility of future events, its consequences, our vulnerability to those events, and how to recover from them.</P><P><I>Decoding Black Swans and Other Historic Risk Events</I> is a guide towards understanding risk events and how to act before they occur. By exploring some historic risk events, this book analyzes how risk science principles apply in such instances and studies whether current risk science concepts and approaches could potentially have avoided, reduced the impact, or supported recovery following the risk event. It offers new insights by applying recent research progress in understanding and managing risk, considering aspects including quality of evid