Blar i UiS Brage på forfatter "Aven, Terje"
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Prinsipper for vurdering og håndtering av risiko i forbindelse med bevaring av norske arter
Lund Lønning, Caroline (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IØRP/2017;, Master thesis, 2017-06-14)Norge er i dag et land med et rikt dyre- og planteliv. Dette er noe vi vil fortsette med, og vi har en organisasjon i Norge, Artsdatabanken, som jobber for at vi kan akkurat det. Artsdatabanken gjør risikovurderinger for ... -
Quantitative risk assessment of vehicle accidents to provide risk insight for commuting activities in Jakarta, Indonesia
Hendarko, Bintang Wiratama (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-ISØP/2019;, Master thesis, 2019)In the city of Jakarta, the students, working class or any people needing to commute within the city have the option to take the private-owned vehicle or the public mass transport. The private-owned vehicle consists of ... -
The reliability science: Its foundation and link to risk science and other sciences
Aven, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021-06)Several authors have recently questioned whether reliability is a science and a new science. The current paper follows up this discussion. It is argued that reliability is indeed a science and it is important that it is ... -
Review and discussion of current approaches on safety barriers for the Norwegian petroleum activities
Shah, Abbas (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-ISØP/2019;, Master thesis, 2019-06-15)Over the past forty years, hydrocarbon industry is the largest revenue generating industry in Norway. The hydrocarbon activities carried out in the Norwegian continental shelf (NCS) are associated with major accident ... -
Review of Current Methodologies for Handling Risk in an Eternal Perspective, with Suggestions for Improvements
Kostopoulos, Dimitrios (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IØRP/2016;, Master thesis, 2016-06)At the heart of traditional risk assessment and risk management lies the notion that analytic tools are able to predict the future. There are, however, activities where risk is considered over long time frames, theoretically ... -
Risk analysis under attack: How risk science can address the legal, social, and reputational liabilities faced by risk analysts
Thekdi, Shital A.; Aven, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)The role of the risk analyst is critical in understanding and managing uncertainty. However, there is another type of uncertainty that is rarely discussed: The legal, social, and reputational liabilities of the risk analyst. ... -
Risk Analysis, Risk Management and Risk Communication in Complex Socio-Technical Systems: A Study on Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems
Marchewka, Anja-Marie (Master thesis, 2021)Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS) initiate a new era in the realm of mobility and transportation. The modern technologies applied in the systems allow for innovative services concerning traffic and ... -
A risk and safety science perspective on the precautionary principle
Aven, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023)The precautionary principle is strongly debated as a policy for handling risk and safety concerns. It is commonly claimed that the principle is paralyzing, unscientific and promotes a culture of irrational fear. The risk ... -
Risk literacy : Foundational issues and its connection to risk science
Aven, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-09)A new research area is developing, risk literacy. The term “risk literacy” basically refers to one's ability to understand and evaluate risk, in order to support and make appropriate decisions. In this article, we discuss ... -
Risk science applied to major risk events in history
Thekdi, Shital; Aven, Terje (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
Aven, Terje (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
Aven, Terje; Flage, Roger (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
Aven, Terje (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
Glette-Iversen, Ingrid; Aven, Terje; Flage, Roger (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 ... -
The strong power of standards in the safety and risk fields: A threat to proper developments of these fields?
Aven, Terje; Ylönen, Marja (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)Standards like ISO 31000 on risk management are increasingly influencing the risk and safety fields, despite rather strong criticism concerning their quality. In this paper, we perform a thorough discussion of the application ... -
Testing and evaluating the new Safety Job Analysis (SJA) guidelines
Shariatpanahi, Seyed Ali (Masteroppgave/UIS-TN-IØRP/2018;, Master thesis, 2018-06-07)Safe Job Analysis (SJA) is a systematic approach to conducting risk assessment for work operations and is used when planning critical work. It is a systematic, step by step review of risk prior to a work activity or ... -
The green shift: An evaluation of Risk Analysis practice in Offshore Wind and the transfer of this practice from Oil and Gas
Fatnes, Julie (Master thesis, 2022)The “green shift” has led to a strong emphasis on producing more sustainable energy than we are currently doing today, both internationally and nationally. One of the solutions to this is presented by the Offshore Wind ... -
Three influential risk foundation papers from the 80s and 90s: Are they still state-of-the-art?
Aven, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020-01)Three of the most influential scientific works in the risk field, at least in the engineering environment, are Stan Kaplan and John Garrick's paper from 1981 on risk quantification, George Apostolakis’ paper on probability ... -
Understanding the implications of low knowledge and high uncertainty in risk studies
Thekdi, Shital; Aven, Terje (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2023-11)Risk analysis has existed for thousands of years and will continue to grow in importance across professions and industries. Of special importance is the need to understand and manage risk when there is low knowledge and ... -
Understanding, assessing, comparing, and managing risks related to the energy transition from fossil fuel to renewables – for Norway and India
Joshi, Siddharth Digambar (Master thesis, 2022)There is growing worry about the future supply of fossil-fuel-based energy and its environmental consequences. There is call for the globe to switch from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. (Teles et al., 2015). On ...