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Risk Perspective of the Maritime Supply Chain in Norway
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-ISØP/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-06)Norway has a strong maritime cluster and employs 90 000 people. The supply chain in the maritime industry consists of a complex and global network of logistics. The purpose is to collect information about the risk ... -
Risk Premium in Brent Crude and TTF European Gas
(Student paper, others, 2023)This study explores the presence of risk premium in Brent Crude and TTF European Gas. Risk premium theory is a controversial theory which explains the future prices and risk premium itself is important to study in terms ... -
Risk reducing measures in the context of risk management in quantitative risk analysis for maintenance and modification projects
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IØRP/2012;, Master thesis, 2012)Risk analysis in the oil industry is used to identify and address the risks that are involved in a certain situation, on for instance a platform. Risk analyses have a long history in the oil and gas industry, and have been ... -
Risk regulation and risk perception : the link to risk perspectives
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IØRP/2009, Master thesis, 2009)The purpose of this paper is to discuss how risk regulation is related to fundamental concepts about risk. It distinguishes between two risk perspectives: a traditional risk perspective where risk is considered an objective ... -
Risk regulation in the North Sea : a common law perspective on Norwegian legislation
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)The paper include an assessment of the development of the Norwegian regulatory system based on legislative written text, but also compare the impact (efficiency/effectiveness) of the regulatory regime. The theoretical basis ... -
Risk science applied to major risk events in history
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Major risk events in history are often labeled as black swans or as unforeseeable given the risk policies and procedures existing at the time. Hindsight suggests that many of these events could have been foreseeable. This ... -
Risk Science Contributions: Three Illustrating Examples
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-07)This article aims to demonstrate that risk science is important for society, industry and all of us. Rather few people today, including scientists and managers, are familiar with what this science is about—its foundation ... -
A risk science perspective on liability/guilt and uncertainty judgements in courts
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)This article aims to provide new insights about risk and uncertainty in law contexts, by incorporating ideas and principles of contemporary risk science. The main focus is on one particular aspect of the law: its operation ... -
A risk science perspective on the discussion concerning Safety I, Safety II and Safety III
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-09)Recently, there has been a discussion in the safety science community concerning the validity of basic approaches to safety, referred to as Safety I, Safety II and Safety III, with Erik Hollnagel and Nancy Leveson in leading ... -
A risk science perspective on vaccines
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)Vaccines can be seen as one of the greatest successes in modern medicine. Good examples are the vaccines against smallpox, polio, and measles. Unfortunately, vaccines can have side effects, but the risks are considered by ... -
Risk Seeking Attitudes towards COVID-19 Vaccination and the role of HCPs in Norway and Pakistan.
(Master thesis, 2022)COVID-19 is a pandemic situation in which the people suffer from the SARS-COV virus. Most of the people in this fall sick as a result of the COVID-19 due to which the people suffer from mild to severe symptoms and recover ... -
Risk understanding and risk acknowledgement : a new approach to environmental risk assessment in marine aquaculture
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)A better understanding of the potential cumulative impacts of large-scale fish farming, could help marine aquaculture to become more environmentally sustainable. Risk assessment plays an important role in this process by ... -
Risk, Luck and Deception: Three Essays in Behavioral Economics
(PhD thesis UiS;435, Doctoral thesis, 2019-02)Two of the pillars in the field of behavioral economics which we are concerned with are motivation and rationality. In this thesis, which consists of three papers, I explore both these topics, and each of these papers are ... -
Risk, price, and reimbursement
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)The article offers five hypotheses for the inverse relationship between risk and price in terms of first and second derivatives, establishing ranges of convexity, linearity, concavity. Negative price means reimbursement. ... -
Risk, production and conflict when utilities are as if certain
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2010)The article analyses a production and conflict model of risk, supplementing the common rent seeking analysis. Agents differ in attitudes toward risk, productive efficiencies, fighting efficiencies and resources for production ... -
Risk-based Maintenance And Smart Maintenance Concept For Offshore Wind Turbine: A study of a reference wind turbine model
(Master thesis, 2021)The wind energy sector is the highest trending renewable energy globally, both onshore and offshore. However, the potential for onshore wind power is limited due to some factors, such as land constraints and capacity factor. ... -
Risk-based work optimization for deep water drilling operations: Integration of risk analysis, maintenance and human factors on BOP operation
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IKM/2013;, Master thesis, 2013-10-10)The offshore deep water drilling has attracted global attention since the Macando blowout. It raised worldwide concern on the safety level of oil & gas industry and resulted in directly influence on offshore drilling ... -
A risk-increasing safety strategy? Evaluating the Traditional Risk-mitigating Strategy in Dealing with Dumped Ammunition and Explosive Remnants of War
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Risk-informed design for structural robustress in ordinary building projects
(Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IØRP/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-06-12)Robustness has become a requirement in the modern building codes. Despite significant theoretical and methodical progress in the recent years, structural robustness still has remained vague in its interpretation, evaluation ... -
Risk-taking on behalf of others
(Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-06)We present an experimental study on how people take risk on behalf of others. We use three different elicitation methods, and study how each subject makes decisions both on behalf of own money and on behalf of another ...