Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Risk disaster science aims to improve our knowledge on hazardous events and related consequences, their mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery, as well as how to support decision making on the best way to handle such events and consequences. Risk science addresses many of the same types of issues, with its focus on concepts, principles, theories, models, approaches, and methods for understanding, assessing, communicating, and handling risk, with applications. This article aims to clarify how these fields and sciences relate to each other; what are the overlaps, and in what ways do they differ? The article argues that disaster risk science can be viewed as applied risk science. The implications of such a perspective are discussed and measures suggested for how to enhance these fields and their interactions.
Source: Risk Analysis
DOI: 10.1111/risa.70045
Author: Terje Aven
Institution: University of Stavanger
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $4,880
OpenAlex ID: W4409821376