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Terje Aven,
University of Stavanger, Norway
Challenges in risk
management and governance
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Activity Consequences
(events, effects)
Negative
Positive
Uncertainty
Future
The risk concept
Society for Risk Analysis Glossary, Core Subjects and Key Principles (www.sra.org/resources)
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Uncertainty
Events
with
some
effects
Consequences
Some
effects are
undesirable
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Activity Consequences
(events, effects)
Negative
Positive
Uncertainty
Future
• Different decision alternatives
• Suppose accurate predictions of the
consequences can be made
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Accurate
predictions Decision
Uncertainties
Values
?
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Assessments
(evidence,
knowledge)Decision
Uncertainties
Values
Inform
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Creating values
Taking risk
Reduce the risks
and uncertainties
Balance
Development and Protection
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Risk Assessment
Risk perception and
communication
Risk
management
Risk
characterization
Policies on Risk
Risk Analysis
Security
Safety Resilience
Concepts, theories, principles,
methods and models
Health and
medicineEngineering
Business
Climate
change Occupational
safety
...
…
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Supporting risk knowledge generation for
specific activities
Supporting the tackling of risk problems
(Applied risk analysis A)
Risk Analysis
Generic concepts, principles, approaches
and methods on how to understand,
assess, communicate and manage risk
(Generic risk analysis B)
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Problem
You – an
expert in risk
analysis
PM/President
How should we best
characterize the risk we
face?
Country X
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Activity Consequences
(events, effects)
Negative
Positive
Uncertainty
Future
The risk concept
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Expressing uncertainty
Probability Knowledge
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P(A | assumption) <
0.0000001
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A1 P(A1) E[impact| A1]
A2 P(A2) E[impact| A2]
A3
…
Example A: Natural disaster
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B1 P(B1) Strength of knowledge
B2 P(B2) Strength of knowledge
B3
…
Example B: Natural disaster with
significant impact
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Characterisation of risk
• Specfied events, effects
• Expressed uncertainties
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Expressing uncertainty
Probability Knowledge
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How do you interpret a probability
judgment P(A) = 0.95 and
P(A) ≥ 0.95 used to express the
assigner’s uncertainty and degree of
belief ?
A: Most of the current global warming trend
is the result of human activity (IPCC)
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Knowledge-based probability
• P(A|K) = 0.95
• The assessor compares his/her uncertainty (degree
og belief) about the occurrence of the event A
with drawing a red ball from an urn that contains
100 balls where 95 are red (Kaplan and Garrick 1981, Lindley, 2000).
K: background knowledge
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Subjective probabilities
• The probability of the event A, P(A), equals the
amount of money that the assigner would be
willing to put on the table if he/she would receive
a single unit of payment in the case that the
event A were to occur, and nothing otherwise …
Bruno de Finetti 1930
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Subjective probabilities
• A mixture of uncertainty assessments and
value judgments
• Many other such interpretations exists
(Ramsey, Savage …)
• Common in the economic literature and
among decision analysts
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• P(A) ≥ 0.95
• The assessor compares his/her uncertainty (degree
of belief) about the event A to be true (occur) with
drawing a red ball from an urn that contains 100
balls where 95 or more are red (Kaplan and Garrick 1981, Lindley, 2000).
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Frequentist
probability
Pf
Jugdmental/
knowledge-based,
subjective
probabilities P
Probability
Variation Assessor’s
expression of
uncertainty – a
degree of belief
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Terje Aven,
University of Stavanger, Norway
Challenges in risk
management and governance
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Risk governance:
The application of governance
principles to the identification,
assessment, management and
communication of risk (SRA Glossary
2015)
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Openness Accountability
Subsidiarity
Proportionality
Integration
Effectiveness
Inclusion
Fairness
Reflection
Sustainability
Coherence
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Current
risk
issues
‘Narrow approach’
Current
risk
issues
Need for a
broader approach
The risk issues were handled as if they were
simple
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Simple
Uncertainty
Value
differences
Risk issues
class
‘Objective’ probabilities available
i) a potential for extreme consequences
and ii) large uncertainties concerning
what will be the consequences
I) a potential for extreme
consequences and II) different values
related to the risks (consequences at
stake, uncertainties)
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Simple
Uncertainty
Value
differences
Risk issues
class
‘Objective’ probabilities available
i) a potential for extreme consequences
and ii) large uncertainties concerning
what will be the consequences
I) a potential for extreme
consequences and II) different values
related to the risks (consequences at
stake, uncertainties)
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Problem
You – expert
in risk
analysis
President/PM
What are the key
strategies for dealing with
risk?
Country X
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Risk
assessment
informed
Robustness,
resilience, cautious
policies …
Dialogue
Main strategies for handling risk
Balancing other concerns
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From risk to resilience
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System
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Resilience can be improved by
strengthening immune systems,
diversification and flexible response
options
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We also need to address risk to understand
how and when serious threats may occur, and
avoid them, and also guide the resilience
management to use the available resources in a
best possible way
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Develop,
creating values
Take risk
Reduce the risks
and uncertainties
Cautionary-precautionary E[NPV], cost-benefit analyses ALARP
Balance
Development and protection
Risk acceptance criteria
E: Expected
value
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• Cautionary principle
• Precautionary principle
If the consequences of an activity could be serious and
subject to (scientific) uncertainties, then cautionary
measures should be taken or the activity should not be
carried out
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German Ethics Commission, which paved the
way for the Governmental phase-out decision:
Roughly half of the commission stated that
nuclear energy is not acceptable because of its
catastrophic potential, independent of the
probability of large accidents occurring and also
independent of its economic benefit to society
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Is cautionary/precautionary thinking wise
(rational)?
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Thanks
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Literature
• Society for Risk Analysis Glossary, Core Subjects and Key
Principles (www.sra.org/resources)
• Aven and Renn (2018) Some foundational issues related to risk
governance and different types of risks
• Aven and Renn (2018) Improving Government Policy on Risk: Eight
Key Principles
• Aven, T. (2017) How some types of risk assessments can support
resilience analysis and management. Reliability Engineering &
System Safety, 167, 536-543.
• Aven, T. (2016) Risk assessment and risk management: review of
recent advances on their foundation. European Journal of
Operational Research, 25: 1-13. Open access. Invited paper.
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• Extra
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Governments should be open and
transparent about their understanding of
the nature of risks to the public and about
the process they are following in handling
them
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Challenge: a professional language and
terminology that makes this communication
work effectively
P
Risk
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Good risk analysis
science
Good
communication
Good risk
communication
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Knowledge Justified beliefs
Data Information Argumentation
Theories
Testing Modelling
Scientific knowledge
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Supporting risk knowledge generation in
medicine, natural sciences, etc.
Supporting the tackling of risk problems
(A)
Risk Analysis
Generic concepts, principles, approaches
and methods on how to understand,
assess, communicate and manage risk (B)
1. nature (natural
science),
2. ourselves (e.g.
psychology and
medicine),
3. our societies
(social sciences),
4. our own physical
constructions
(e.g. technology
and engineering),
5. our own mental
constructions
(e.g. linguistics,
mathematics and
philosophy)
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Supporting risk knowledge generation in
medicine, natural sciences, etc.
Supporting the tackling of risk problems
(A)
Risk Analysis
Generic concepts, principles, approaches
and methods on how to understand,
assess, communicate and manage risk (B)
SRA Glossary www.sra.org/resources
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Activity,
system
Real world
A
Studies,
communication and
management of the
risk of this specific
activity
B
Generic risk analysis
practices and
research:
How to
conceptualise,
understand, assess,
communicate and
manage risk
Experts in
other fields
Competence
Risk analysis
experts
into risk, decision
support, good
decisions
What do they
give?
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Principle
This process of balancing different concerns
can be supported by cost-benefit balancing
methods, but this type of formal analyses needs
to be supplemented with broader judgements of
risk and uncertainties, as well as stakeholder
involvement processes
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• Probability (knowledge-based, frequentist)
• Imprecise probability
• P(A|K), K knowledge
• Probability model
• Model uncertainty
Uncertainty Variation Imprecision
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Knowledge-based probability
• P(A|K) = 0.1
• The assessor compares his/her uncertainty (degree
og belief) about the occurrence of the event A
with drawing a specific ball from an urn that
contains 10 balls (Kaplan and Garrick 1981, Lindley, 2000).
K: background knowledge
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Other types of probabilities
• Logical probabilities
– P(h|e), which measures the objective
degree of logical support that evidence e
gives to the hypothesis h
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Risk
Risk is
expected
value Risk is
consequences
and probabilityRisk is
consequences
and uncertainties
1980 2018
Risk = uncertainty/potential/possibility
Risk = objective probability distributions
Risk = event …
Aven, T. (2012) The risk concept. Historical and recent
development trends. Reliability Engineering and System
Safety. 115, 136–145.
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Uncertainty
Imprecision
Variation
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Uncertainty: P(temp increases >2) =
0.75
Imprecision P(temp increases >2) >
0.50
Variation Pf(«1») = ?
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P(temp increases >2 |K)
K: Knowledge
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Risk metrics
P(A) F-N
curve
E[Loss]
VaR
P(B1) E[Loss|B1)
P(B2) E[Loss|B2)
…
Knowledge base must always be included
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Expected
utility theory
Cost-benefit
analysis
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Extreme
consequences
a) Unknown
unknowns
b)
Unknown
knowns
c) Known but not
believed to occur
because of low
judged probability
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Statement
Event
A
Uncertainty
measure Q
K
SoK
IPCC – Intergovernmental panel on climate change
1. Global warming takes place and is extremely likely (greater than 95% probability) to be
the result of human activity
2. Ocean acidification will increase for centuries if CO2 emissions continue, and will
strongly affect marine ecosystems (with high confidence).
3. The threshold for the loss of the Greenland ice sheet over a millennium or more, and an
associated sea level rise of up to 7 m, is greater than about 1°C (low confidence) but
less than about 4°C (medium confidence) of global warming with respect to pre-
industrial temperatures.
Confidence: evidence + agreements
K: knowledge
SoK: Strength of knowledge