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Improving Risk Regulation

Confronted with the challenge of improving regulatory performance, many governments in the world are looking for ways to better manage risks, in particular those risks that develop in complex systems, with stakeholders from various sectors, and that are ma ...

International Risk Governance Council (IRGC)2015

Enhancement and application of a risk assessment technique for research and teaching laboratories

David Nicolas Plüss

Risk management became an important element of the modern society. Being aware of risks and take appropriate actions to handle them are crucial elements in most industries, especially the ones for which the consequences of undesired events reach disastrous ...

EPFL2015

Architectural contribution given the risks due to the popularity of the Mont-Blanc

Estelle Lépine

The objective of this contribution is to demonstrate the capacity of architecture to be a major factor of development on the specific site of the Aiguille du Goûter refuge, against the risks, both, environmental and human, caused by the severe overcrowding ...

2014

Risk Governance Guidelines for Unconventional Gas Development

Marie-Valentine Renée Agnès Florin, Aleksandar Jovanovic, Arunabh Singh

Based on concerns that unconventional gas development is occurring despite much uncertainty about its potential impacts on the environment, climate, economy and society the IRGC offers recommendations relating to assessing and managing risks involved in th ...

International Risk Governance Council (IRGC)2013

On the benefits of diffusion cooperation for distributed optimization and learning

Ali H. Sayed

This work characterizes the nature of the limit point of distributed strategies for adaptation and learning over networks in the general case when the combination policy is not necessarily doubly stochastic and when the individual risks do not necessarily ...

2013

Expert Judgements in Risk Analysis: a Strategy to Overcome Uncertainities

Thierry Meyer, Amela Groso, David Nicolas Plüss

There is a need for a risk analysis technique specific for academic research laboratories. Since accurate accident data, normally required for quantitative risk analysis, are not available for this environment, expert judgements are often used to describe ...

2013

Substance flow analysis as a tool for mitigating the impact of pharmaceuticals on the aquatic system

Luca Rossi, Sylvain Coutu, Htet Kyi Wynn, Jonas Margot

Pharmaceuticals constitute an important environmental issue for receiving waters. A holistic approach, taking into consideration the sources of these compounds (hospitals, domestic use), discharges (wastewater effluent, combined sewer overflows) and relate ...

Elsevier2013

Architecture. A main factor of development and protection of the mountain environment

Estelle Lépine

The objective of this contribution is to show architecture as a major factor of development of the mountain environment against both environmental and human risks caused by the severe overcrowding of the routes leading to the main Alpine summits. The choic ...

Salzburger Nationalparkfonds2013

Assessment of Environmental Impacts Related to Shale Gas Extraction in the Polish Contex

Nicolas Füllemann

In the last decade, the exponential development of shale gas activities in United States resulted in a real revolution both in terms of gas prices and energy security. However, next to these positive effects, many risks and impacts for the environment and ...

2012

An application of a decision tree for assessing effects from exposures to multiple substances to the assessment of human and ecological effects from combined exposures to chemicals observed in surface waters and waste water effluents

Xiaoxue Han

A decision tree has been developed for evaluating risks posed by combined exposures to multiple chemicals. The decision tree divides combined exposures of humans and ecological receptors into groups where one or more components are a concern by themselves, ...

2012

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