Risk management of liability uncertainties to facilitate brownfield redevelopment: Comparing the situation of Canada with the US

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lizhong Wang ◽  
Liping Fang ◽  
Keith W. Hipel
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Brownfield Redevelopment ◽  
The Us

scholarly journals A Qualitative Study on the US Forest Service’s Risk Management Assistance Efforts to Improve Wildfire Decision-Making

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 344
Author(s):  
Courtney A. Schultz ◽  
Lauren F. Miller ◽  
Sarah Michelle Greiner ◽  
Chad Kooistra
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Risk Management ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Fire Management ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
Forest Service ◽  
The Us ◽  
Decision Biases ◽  
Line Officers

To support improved wildfire incident decision-making, in 2017 the US Forest Service (Forest Service) implemented risk-informed tools and processes, together known as Risk Management Assistance (RMA). The Forest Service is developing tools such as RMA to improve wildfire decision-making and implements these tools in complex organizational environments. We assessed the perceived value of RMA and factors that affected its use to inform the literature on decision support for fire management. We sought to answer two questions: (1) What was the perceived value of RMA for line officers who received it?; and (2) What factors affected how RMA was received and used during wildland fire events? We conducted a qualitative study involving semi-structured interviews with decision-makers to understand the contextualized and interrelated factors that affect wildfire decision-making and the uptake of a decision-support intervention such as RMA. We used a thematic coding process to analyze our data according to our questions. RMA increased line officers’ ability to communicate the rationale underlying their decisions more clearly and transparently to their colleagues and partners. Our interviewees generally said that RMA data analytics were valuable but did not lead to changes in their decisions. Line officer personality, pre-season exposure to RMA, local political dynamics and conditions, and decision biases affected the use of RMA. Our findings reveal the complexities of embracing risk management, not only in the context of US federal fire management, but also in other similar emergency management contexts. Attention will need to be paid to existing decision biases, integration of risk management approaches in the interagency context, and the importance of knowledge brokers to connect across internal organizational groups. Our findings contribute to the literature on managing change in public organizations, specifically in emergency decision-making contexts such as fire management.

ALWR PRA Standard Development

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
James R. Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Low Power ◽  
Working Group ◽  
Current Generation ◽  
The Us ◽  
Level 3 ◽  
External Events ◽  
Level 2 ◽  
Standard Development

In 2012 a review and comment ballot containing requirements for use of the Standard on ALWRs was issued. The ballot is based on the ASME/ANS PRA Standard (i.e., RA-Sa-2009). The ballot was developed by the Joint Committee on Nuclear Risk Management (JCNRM) working group (WG) on ALWRs. Based on the charter of the working group and stakeholder interest, Parts 1 through 5 of the Standard have been addressed. Thus, address internal events at power, internal flooding at power, internal fires at power, and seismic at power have been addressed. Other external events started in 2012 and will be balloted in 2013. Low power and shutdown (LP/SD) modes, and Level 2 PRA and Level 3 PRA Standards (when they are available) will then be considered. A formal ballot for Parts 1 through 5 is planned for 2013. This paper provides the approach and results. The mandatory appendix is important because an ALWR plant in the preoperational cannot meet the standard as written, and the US NRC expects that the PRA will meet the Standard. Thus changes are needed to the standard to address the differences in preoperational and operational plants and the differences in current generation and ALWR plants. This will assist vendors and licensees in successfully developing PRAs to meet US NRC requirements.

scholarly journals Governing Uncertainty or Uncertain Governance? Information Security and the Challenge of Cutting Ties

2020 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Slayton
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Security Governance ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
Information Security Governance

Information security governance has become an elusive goal and a murky concept. This paper problematizes both information security governance and the broader concept of governance. What does it mean to govern information security, or for that matter, anything? Why have information technologies proven difficult to govern? And what assurances can governance provide for the billions of people who rely on information technologies every day? Drawing together several distinct bodies of literature—including multiple strands of governance theory, actor–network theory, and scholarship on sociotechnical regimes—this paper conceptualizes networked action on a spectrum from uncertain governance to governing uncertainty. I advance a twofold argument. First, I argue that networks can better govern uncertainty as they become more able not only to enroll actors in a collective agenda, but also to cut ties with those who seek to undermine that agenda. And second, I argue that the dominant conception of information security governance, which emphasizes governing uncertainty through risk management, in practice devolves to uncertain governance. This is largely because information technologies have evolved toward greater connectedness—and with it, greater vulnerability—creating a regime of insecurity. This evolution is illustrated using the history of the US government’s efforts to govern information security.

scholarly journals Approaches for assessing riverine scour

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Howard ◽  
Jang Pak ◽  
David May ◽  
Stanford Gibson ◽  
Chris Haring ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Flood Risk ◽  
Flood Risk Management ◽  
Exact Science ◽  
Us Army ◽  
River Bed ◽  
The Us ◽  
Riverine Environment ◽  
Stream Hydraulics ◽  
High Hazard

Calculating scour potential in a stream or river is as much a geomorphological art as it is an exact science. The complexity of stream hydraulics and heterogeneity of river-bed materials makes scour predictions in natural channels uncertain. Uncertain scour depths near high-hazard flood-risk zones and flood-risk management structures lead to over-designed projects and difficult flood-risk management decisions. This Regional Sediment Management technical report presents an approach for estimating scour by providing a decision framework that future practitioners can use to compute scour potential within a riverine environment. This methodology was developed through a partnership with the US Army Engineer Research and Development Center, Hydrologic Engineering Center, and St. Paul District in support of the Lower American River Contract 3 project in Sacramento, CA.

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