What’s important? Making what is valuable and worth protecting explicit when performing risk and vulnerability analyses
Författare
Summary, in English
Values and opinions about what is valuable, are of centralimportance in risk and vulnerability analyses. Yet what is considered valuableis seldom explicitly established. The aim of this study is to explore what groupsof civil servants express as valuable and worth protecting when performing riskand vulnerability analyses in their organisations and to discuss the underlyingreasons for their stipulations. A theoretical framework is elaborated and appliedon the outcome of four seminars, in which participants from Swedish publicorganisations express what they consider valuable and worth protecting. Theresults show considerable variation in what is expressed as valuable and worthprotecting. Possible explanations for the variation and the usefulness of theoutcomes of the different seminars are discussed.
Avdelning/ar
- Avdelningen för Brandteknik
- Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet
- Lund University Centre for Risk Assessment and Management (LUCRAM)
Publiceringsår
2010-01-04
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
345-363
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management
Volym
13
Issue
3-4
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Inderscience Publishers
Ämne
- Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
- Other Civil Engineering
- Building Technologies
Nyckelord
- Crisis management
- Emergency management
- Establish
- Explicit
- Extrinsic
- Instrumental
- Intrinsic
- Opinions
- Risk analysis
- Valuable
- Value
- Variation
- Vulnerability analysis make explicit
- Worth protecting
Status
Published
Projekt
- FRIVA
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1466-8297