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Browsing by Subject "Risk management"

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    Ash and Aviation in Europe: A Stakeholder Analysis of Preparedness for Volcanic Ash from Iceland 
    Reichardt, Uta (University of Iceland, School of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2018-05-04)
    International aviation guidelines suggest complete avoidance of ash-contaminated airspace due to its hazardous impact on aircrafts and jet engines. In 2010, however, the eruption of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano memorably demonstrated the limits of this ...
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    Managing unprecedented risk: Unstable slopes in Iceland and Greenland 
    Matti, Stephanie Alice (University of Iceland, School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Sociology, Anthropology and Folkloristics, 2022)
    Climate change is contributing to shifts in the magnitude and scale of hazards, and the emergence of environmental risks in areas where they were previously unknown. In the Öræfi district of south-east Iceland, a fracture discovered by farmers gathering ...
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    Practising an explosive eruption in Iceland: outcomes from a European exercise 
    Witham, Claire; Barsotti, Sara; Dumont, Stéphanie; Oddsson, Björn; Sigmundsson, Freysteinn (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020-01-07)
    A 3 day exercise simulating unrest and a large explosive eruption at Katla volcano, Iceland, was conducted in January 2016. A large volume of simulated data based on a complex, but realistic eruption scenario was compiled in advance and then transmitted ...
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    Project ethics: The Critical Path to Project Success - applying an ethical risk assessment tool to a large infrastructure project 
    Ingason, Helgi; Jonasson, Haukur Ingi (University of Technology, Sydney, 2018-06-12)
    A project ethics tool was applied to review a major infrastructure project in Iceland. The tool is based on the four principles of “virtue” based ethics, “utility” based ethics, “duty” based ethics and “rights” based ethics. The tool uses perspectives ...