2011/08/22 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

How to understand and express risk

enterprise-risk

What is risk, and how can it be expressed? Different international standards, such as the AS/NZS 3460 Risk Management Standard, the COSO ERM framework and the ISO 31000 Risk Management Standard do not provide adequate guidance for risk assessments and lack the necessary precision. [ ... ]

2010/04/16 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Not all risk is risk

How to define, understand and describe risk

The article lists and discusses eight risk definitions, and then suggests an alternative and comprehensive definition that captures all aspects of risk. [ ... ]

2010/04/09 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Risk versus vulnerability

aven-risk-uncertainty

In this paper safety and security are brought together in a unifying risk and vulnerability framework that covers both accidental and malicious events. [ ... ]

2010/02/26 ARTICLES AND PAPERS

Certain death: Not risky. Uncertain death: risky.

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It is only when the consequences of actions and events are uncertain that these actions and events are truly risky. [ ... ]