Terje Aven

Oct 8, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | James Derbyshire |Terje Aven

1 INTRODUCTION Traditionally, risk assessments employed probabilities to express uncertainties. However, contemporary risk-assessment frameworks recognize the need to “go beyond probability” (Aven, 2016) by including a component that reflects a judgment on the strength of knowledge lying behind a measure of uncertainty, such as a probability.

Jul 29, 2024 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Terje Aven

1 INTRODUCTION Every year in December, The Society for Risk Analysis (SRA) organizes an annual meeting in the USA. It is the biggest SRA event of the year and is attended by risk scientists and analysts from all over the world. The meeting location and site contracts have been based on a policy of alternating between the Washington D.C. area and other places in the USA, such as Florida, Texas, and California. The meeting locations are selected 4+ years in advance.

Sep 20, 2023 | onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Terje Aven

1 INTRODUCTION We all face risk in our daily lives—health risk, transportation risk, security risk, financial risk, and many others. Risk literacy is about understanding and evaluating these risks, in order to make proper decisions—it is about how to accurately interpret and act on information about risk and uncertainties (Cokely et al., 2012; Gigerenzer, 2012; Lusardi, 2015; Nikiforidou et al., 2012; Richard, 1993; Risk Literacy, 2023; Till, 2014).