Risk-based standards: integrating top–down and bottom–up approaches

Igor Linkov (), Elke Anklam, Zachary A. Collier, Daniel DiMase and Ortwin Renn
Additional contact information
Igor Linkov: United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center
Elke Anklam: European Commission’s Joint Research Centre
Zachary A. Collier: United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center
Daniel DiMase: Society of Automotive Engineers
Ortwin Renn: University of Stuttgart

Environment Systems and Decisions, 2014, vol. 34, issue 1, 134-137

Abstract: Abstract In response to rapidly changing threats posed to increasingly complex socio-technical systems, many in the government and private sector have called for protection through risk-based standards. However, given the nature of these dynamic and uncertain threats, traditional risk assessment techniques may not be sufficient. Instead, there is a critical need for an integrated approach in which decision analytic techniques are used to assess evidence-based data with the values and preferences of decision makers. We point to three examples in the fields of nuclear power regulation, nanotechnology, and cybersecurity, where risk-based approaches (bottom–up) have been combined with decision analysis (top–down) to guide decision makers toward risk management policies that manifest both the best available evidence and the plurality of values within a society.

Keywords: Cybersecurity; Risk assessment; Resilience; Risk management; Security; Policy; Nanotechnology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://link.springer.com/10.1007/s10669-014-9488-3 Abstract (text/html)
Access to the full text of the articles in this series is restricted.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:envsyd:v:34:y:2014:i:1:d:10.1007_s10669-014-9488-3

Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from
https://www.springer.com/journal/10669

DOI: 10.1007/s10669-014-9488-3

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Environment Systems and Decisions from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().