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In this chapter we present the fundamentals of project risk management. We provide an overview of the overall process including risk identification, qualitative and quantitative risk assessment, and risk mitigation/treatment. We discuss different approaches to modeling project risks and provide a context for the materials we cover in the following chapters.

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Damnjanovic, I., Reinschmidt, K. (2020). Project Risk Management Fundamentals. In: Data Analytics for Engineering and Construction Project Risk Management. Risk, Systems and Decisions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14251-3_2

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