Environmental Security, Critical Infrastructure and Risk Assessment: Definitions and Current Trends
Environmental Security, Critical Infrastructure and Risk Assessment: Definitions and Current Trends
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环境安全、关键基础设施和风险评估:定义和当前趋势
DOI:
10.1007/1-4020-3893-3_1
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发表时间:
2006
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I. Linkov
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作者:
D. Belluck;R. Hull;S. Benjamin;J. Alcorn;I. Linkov
Population growth, needed economic growth, and social pressures for improved infrastructure coupled to the need for human health and ecological protection and environmental security make systematic and transparent environmental decisionmaking a complex and often difficult task. Evaluating complex technical data and developing feasible risk management options requires procedural flexibility that may not be part of existing evaluative structures. Experience has demonstrated that direct transposition of risk assessment and risk management frameworks (eg those developed in the United States and European Union) may not work in regions whose social, legal, historical, political and economic situations are not suitable or prepared for acceptance of these methodologies. Flexible decision-making, including the use and development of acceptable or unacceptable risk levels based on the critical nature of an infrastructure