Risk Assessment

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The international discussion on risk has mostly originated from the assessment of risk in the fields of medical services, the chemical industry, and especially after the nuclear catastrophes of Three Mile Island (United States) in 1979 and Chernobyl (former Soviet Union). The discussion is not detailed here, but authors including Paul Slovic, Stanley Kaplan, Ulrich Beck, Ortwin Renn, and many others are the main representatives who have given a multitude of explanations and examples of risk assessment. Today in every nation worldwide are institutionalized organizations, such as the Wissenschaftliche Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen (WBGU) in Germany, the Swedish Nuclear Fuel and Waste Management Corporation, the Swiss Nagra, the British Civil Contingencies Secretariat (SCC), or the US Federal Emergency Management Agency/Department of Homeland Security (FEMA). These organizations deal with all kinds of technical and man-made but also natural disasters and all have contributed substantially to the subject.

Keywords

Risk Assessment Gross Domestic Product Natural Disaster Risk Index Disaster Risk 
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  1. 1.BurgdorfGermany

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