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What’s important? Making what is valuable and worth protecting explicit when performing risk and vulnerability analyses

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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.

Department/s

Publishing year

2010-01-04

Language

English

Pages

345-363

Publication/Series

International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management

Volume

13

Issue

3-4

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Inderscience Publishers

Topic

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
  • Other Civil Engineering
  • Building Technologies

Keywords

  • Crisis management
  • Emergency management
  • Establish
  • Explicit
  • Extrinsic
  • Instrumental
  • Intrinsic
  • Opinions
  • Risk analysis
  • Valuable
  • Value
  • Variation
  • Vulnerability analysis make explicit
  • Worth protecting

Status

Published

Project

  • FRIVA

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1466-8297