Special issue: Catastrophic risk management

International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management 15(5/6) 2011

Papers from the 5th International Forum on Engineering Decision Making (IFED), held in Stoos, Switzerland, 7-11 December 2010.

• Homeland security: a case study in risk aversion for public decision-making
• Tales of the unexpected
• On the governance of global and catastrophic risks
• Optimisation-based decision-making for complex networks in disastrous events
• Acceptance criteria for risks of disasters with widespread effects

Additional Paper

•  Minimising value-at-risk in a portfolio optimisation problem using a multi-objective genetic algorithm