Meaning and contextualisation in risk assessment

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 79-89

  Horlick Jones, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SURREY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERT SYSTEMS; RISK MANAGEMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

CONTEXTUALISATION;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0031599415     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(97)00122-1     Document Type: Article

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