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The risk problems facing society today have many characteristics that limit and otherwise complicate the application of formal analysis. Since not all problems possess these complicating qualities to the same degree, some problems may be addressed more effectively by certain decision-aiding approaches than by others. To identify the most useful approach, the analyst must clearly understand the decision problem being addressed. A comparative evaluation of approaches must therefore begin with a characterization of social risk management decisions.
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Merkhofer, M.W. (1987). Social Risk Management. In: Decision Science and Social Risk Management. Technology, Risk, and Society, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4698-9_1
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