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From Risk to Resilience

Author : Joseph Fiksel

Published in: Resilient by Design

Publisher: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics

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Abstract

Embracing change means accepting uncertainty about the future. Of course, making business decisions is challenging when the outcomes are uncertain. An entire academic field called management science offers mathematical tools to help companies make all sorts of decisions, from setting inventory targets to making major capital investments. Central to this field is the concept of risk, a term that is widely used and often misunderstood.

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Footnotes
1
N. N. Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, 2nd ed., Random House, 2010, p. xxxii.
 
2
Technically, figure 2.1 represents a continuous probability distribution, and the total area under the curve must be 1. A similar chart can be created for a discrete distribution with a finite number of possible outcomes.
 
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10
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12
World Economic Forum, Global Risks 2014, 9th ed., Geneva, 2014, p. 11.
 
13
N. N. Taleb, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, Random House, 2012.
 
14
Taleb, Antifragile, p. 14.
 
15
Helpful information was provided by David Bresch of Swiss Re and Brent Dorsey of Entergy.
 
17
A more holistic assessment of the value at risk from climate change would ideally include second-order macroeconomic impacts, human lives, and socioeconomic factors such as human health and ecosystem degradation.
 
Metadata
Title
From Risk to Resilience
Author
Joseph Fiksel
Copyright Year
2015
Publisher
Island Press/Center for Resource Economics
Book
Resilient by Design

Print ISBN: 978-1-61091-684-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-61091-588-5

Copyright Year: 2015

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-588-5_2