Abstract
Eight major factors of risk comparisons are presented, and the conventional reduction of the risk concept to a unidimensional format is challenged. The similarities between risk issues and other issues of the social decision process are stressed. It is concluded that risk decisions are part of the general political process, and cannot be isolated from this. Expert assessments should be presented in a way that reflects the complexity of the subject matter, instead of repressing it.
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Risk analysis (engineering)Process (computing)Social riskSubject matterRisk assessmentRisk processSubject (documents)Decision processPsychologyComputer scienceManagement scienceActuarial scienceEngineeringBusinessComputer securityMathematics
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- 1989
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- article
- Volume
- 9
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 107-112
- Citations
- 161
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Oskar Hansson
(1989).
Dimensions of Risk.
Risk Analysis
, 9
(1)
, 107-112.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1539-6924.1989.tb01225.x
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- 10.1111/j.1539-6924.1989.tb01225.x