Risk - A Multidisciplinary Introduction [Hardcover]

This is a unique book addressing the integration of risk methodology from various fields. It will stimulate intellectual debate and communication across disciplines, promote better risk management practices and contribute to the development of risk management methodologies. Individual chapters explain fundamental risk models and measurement, and address risk and security issues from diverse areas such as finance and insurance, the health sciences, life sciences, engineering and information science. Integrated Risk Sciences is an emerging discipline that considers risks in different fields, aiming at a common language, and at sharing and improving methods developed in different fields. Readers should have a Bachelor degree and have taken at least one basic university course in statistics and probability. The main goal of the book is to provide basic knowledge on risk and security in a common language; the authors have taken particular care to ensure that all content can readily be understood by doctoral students and researchers across disciplines. Each chapter provides simple case studies and examples, open research questions and discussion points, and a selected bibliography inviting readers to further study.This book addresses the integration of risk methodology from various fields. It stimulates intellectual debate and communication across disciplines, promotes better risk management practices and contributes to the development of risk management methodologies.

Introduction.- Part One. Risk in History and Science: Zachmann, K.: Risk in historical perspective: concepts, contexts, and conjunctions.- L?tge, C., Schnebel, E., Westphal, N.: Risk management and business ethics: integrating the human factor.- Straub, D., Welpe, I.: Decision-making under risk: a normative and behavioral perspective.- Mainzer, K.: The new role of mathematical modelling and its importance lse