Risk informed decision-making and its ethical basis

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 197-205

  Ersdal, Gerhard ^a   Aven, Terje ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STAVANGER   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cost benefit analysis; Decision making; Ethics; Multiattribute analysis; Risk analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; COST ACCOUNTING; ONTOLOGY; RISK ANALYSIS;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; MULTIATTRIBUTE ANALYSIS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 34848836655     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ress.2006.12.018     Document Type: Article

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