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Risk-Informed Decision Making

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Now that we have identified an ISO-31000-compliant, convergent, scalable, drillable, updatable risk management system (Chap. 14) based on a clearly defined glossary (Sect. 5.2), it is time to show examples of risk-informed decision making (RIDM) applied, for example, to a portfolio of dams.

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Oboni, F., Oboni, C. (2020). Risk-Informed Decision Making. In: Tailings Dam Management for the Twenty-First Century. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19447-5_15

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