What Makes Tolerability of Risk Work? Exploring the Limitations of its Applicability to Other Risk Fields

The Tolerability of Risk: A New Framework for Risk Management

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 119-136

  Fairman, Robyn ^a  

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EID: 85138854621     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9781849773324-16     Document Type: Chapter

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