This book provides a comprehensive demonstration of risk analysis as a distinct science covering risk understanding assessment perception communication management governance and policy It presents and discusses the key pillars of this science and provides guidance on how to conduct high quality risk analysis The Science of Risk Analysis seeks to strengthen risk analysis as a field and science by summarizing and extending current work on the topic It presents the foundation for a distinct risk field and science based on recent research and explains the difference between applied risk analysis to provide risk knowledge and tackle risk problems in relation to for example medicine engineering business or climate change and generic risk analysis on concepts theories frameworks approaches principles methods and models to understand assess characterise communicate manage and govern risk The book clarifies and describes key risk science concepts and builds on recent foundational work conducted by the Society for Risk Analysis in order to provide new perspectives on science and risk analysis The topics covered are accompanied by cases and examples relating to current issues throughout This book is essential reading for risk analysis professionals scientists students and practitioners and will also be of interest to scientists and practitioners from other fields who apply risk analysis in their work
