The Essence of Risk and Features of Risk Situation

DOI

10.2991/cesses-19.2019.244How to use a DOI?

Keywords

risk; types of risk; risk threshold; scale of risk; the inevitability of risk; danger; reliability

Abstract

The essence of risk is revealed, which refers to the actions or inactions of a person or a social group in conditions of uncertainty and awareness of the possible danger, as well as the knowledge that success will lead to the intended benefits, and failure – to the intended damage. The following types of risk are identified and described: justified and unjustified (adventurism), active and passive, disinterested and mercenary, big and little, real and imaginary, autorisk and hetero-risk. The concept of “risk threshold” is explained, which means the limit of the perceived danger, after which the risk action is abandoned. The relationship between the concepts of "risk", "faith", "danger", and "reliability" is revealed. The inevitability and progressiveness of risk in the development of new facilities and new types of activities is shown.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Nikolay N. Gubanov
AU  - Nikolay I. Gubanov
AU  - Ekaterina Shorikova
AU  - Boris Zemtsov
PY  - 2019/10
DA  - 2019/10
TI  - The Essence of Risk and Features of Risk Situation
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Ecological Studies (CESSES 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 1087
EP  - 1091
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/cesses-19.2019.244
DO  - 10.2991/cesses-19.2019.244
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