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Complementary Risk Management: A Unified View for Decision Makers

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Risk Methodologies for Technological Legacies

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50% of the problems in the world result from using the same word with different meanings. The other 50% comes from people using different words with the same meaning.

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Bley, D.C., Droppo, J.G., Eremenko, V.A., Lundgren, R. (2003). Complementary Risk Management: A Unified View for Decision Makers. In: Bley, D.C., Droppo, J.G., Eremenko, V.A., Lundgren, R. (eds) Risk Methodologies for Technological Legacies. NATO ASI Series, vol 18. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0097-0_2

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