There are a growing number of researchers and analysts who find the probability-based approaches for assessing risk and uncertainties to be too narrow and limiting. Uncertainty in Risk Assessment provides a broad conceptual framework and describes various alternative approaches of uncertainty...

Explores methods for the representation and treatment of uncertainty in risk assessment In providing guidance for practical decision-making situations concerning high-consequence technologies (e.g., nuclear, oil and gas, transport, etc.), the theories and methods studied in Uncertainty in Risk...

Intro -- Title Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Part I: Fundamental Ideas, Principles and Approaches -- 1 Risk Assessment with Broad Uncertainty and Knowledge Characterisation -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Case Study -- 1.3 Planning of the Risk...