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Human values

Risk-aversion

Risk-aversion

Broader

Respect-Disrespect

Certainty-Uncertainty

Problem

Threatened species of Amphibians

Radiation accidents

Personal physical insecurity of women

Carcinogenic chemical and physical agents

Unreliability of computer software

Travellers' enhanced risk of disease

Transport of dangerous goods

Threatened species of Reptiles

Threatened species of Pisces

Threatened species of Mammals

Threatened species of Invertebrates

Threatened species of Birds

Threatened species of Animalia

Theft of vehicles

Sonic boom generated by supersonic aircraft

Road traffic accidents

Risk-aversion strategy

Risk of unintentional war generated by the arms race

Risk of unintentional nuclear war generated by the strategy of deterrence

Risk of unintentional nuclear war due to international crises

Risk of unintentional nuclear war due to accidents

Risk of unintentional global nuclear war due to nuclear proliferation

Risk of intentional nuclear war

Risk of ecoaccidents

Risk of capital investment

Political upheavals

Occupational health risks

Non-surveillance of medical high risk persons

Nationalization of foreign investments

Multiple births

Marine accidents

Lack of folic acid in diet

Injurious explosions

Injurious accidents

Inconsistent risk evaluation

Dishonest employees

Business bankruptcy

Threatened species of predatory birds

Threatened predatory animals

Small bank failure

Security risk people

Property damage

Offences involving danger to the person

Mechanical failure

Inadequate risk management

Dangerous cargo handling

Damage to goods

Coitus as a cancer risk

Breach of contract

Unwillingness to risk loss of life

Unretrievable documents

Risk of unintentional nuclear war from strategic misjudgement

Risk of unintentional nuclear war

Risk of contracting AIDS through lesions

Reluctance of government to invest in high-risk development initiatives

Prohibitive legal costs

Moral risk to creditors

Interruption risk

Insufficient farm experiments

Inadequate spread of risk

Immunosuppressive risk behaviour

High risk technologies

Hedging in the financial futures market

Forgery of shares and bonds

Excessive desire for risk

Excessive caution

Employment at risk through elimination of industrial pollution

Economic philosophy of controlled risk

Strategy

Using vaccines to prevent communicable diseases

Reducing risk of radiation accidents

Reducing risk of maternal and child mortality and sickness

Reducing environmental risk of cancer

Promoting safety for older people at home

Preventing traffic accidents

Improving reproductive health

Harmonizing transport of dangerous goods

Establishing environmental health indicators for climate change

Establishing chemical risk reduction programmes

Developing environmental risk assessment for genetically modified crops

Developing chemical risk assessment capabilities

Conducting integrated environmental health risk assessments

Assessing health and environmental risks of hazardous waste

Adopting community right-to-know for environmental risk reduction

Reducing risk of accidental nuclear war

Predicting earthquakes

Conserving endangered species of reptiles

Using risk assessment techniques for decision-making

Treating excessive fear of risk

Testing couple compatibility before marriage

Taking surveillance of medical high risk persons

Taking risk during loading and unloading

Taking political risk

Taking occupational risk to health

Taking immunosuppressive risk

Taking high risk

Taking financial risk

Taking controlled risk

Supporting adoption of chemical risk reduction procedures by enterprises

Studying risk of disease

Strengthening safety procedures in the areas of risk assessment

Strengthening programmes on chemical risk assessment

Sharing commercial risk

Setting priorities for chemicals risk reduction programmes

Risking slander

Respecting unwillingness to risk loss of life

Respecting human life

Reducing toxic risk

Reducing risk of unintentional war generated by the arms race

Reducing risk of unintentional nuclear war generated by the strategy of deterrence

Reducing risk of unintentional nuclear war generated by developments of strategic doctrine

Reducing risk of unintentional nuclear war due to international crises

Reducing risk of unintentional nuclear war

Reducing risk of unintentional global nuclear war due to nuclear proliferation

Reducing risk of unintentional cultural mistakes

Reducing risk of theft

Reducing risk of slandering

Reducing risk of political upheaval

Reducing risk of nationalization of overseas investments

Reducing risk of missing documents

Reducing risk of lightning striking

Reducing risk of intentional nuclear war

Reducing risk of insolvency

Reducing risk of incurring legal expenses

Reducing risk of employee infidelity

Reducing risk of ecoaccidents

Reducing risk of damage to stock

Reducing risk of damage to premises

Reducing risk of capital investment

Reducing risk of being kidnapped

Reducing risk of bad weather

Reducing risk of accident

Reducing political risk

Reducing occupational risk in the mining industry

Reducing interruption risk

Reducing impact of natural disasters

Reducing immunosuppressive risk behaviour

Reducing high risk technologies

Reducing high risk quantitative investments

Reducing fire risk

Reducing financial risk

Reducing experimental farming risk

Reducing coitus as a cancer risk

Providing risk loans

Providing health risk data on alternatives to restricted chemicals

Providing adequate unloading site

Protecting against medical experimentation on socially vulnerable groups

Preventing animal extinctions

Planning for the unexpected

Monitoring risk management systems

Monitoring employment at risk through elimination of industrial pollution

Matching actual and perceived risk

Managing interest rate risk

Managing exchange risk

Making consistent risk evaluation

Integrating risk assessment

Insuring against risk of interruption

Informing about unsafe nuclear missiles

Informing about transmission of AIDS by breastfeeding

Increasing technical training on chemical risk management in developing countries

Increasing risk

Increasing international exchange of chemical risk assessment reports

Increasing international assessment of chemical risks

Increasing chemical risk research by industry in developed countries

Improving long-term environmental policies, technology and risk assessment

Improving information systems on toxic chemicals

Improving information systems for safety control

Globalizing risk assessment

Exchanging information on safe handling and risk management for biotechnology

Exchanging information on programmes to reduce toxic chemical risk

Establishing venture capital funds

Endangering with awareness of high risk

Encouraging risk-taking

Discouraging behaviours carrying negative externalities

Developing risk assessment techniques for wetland biodiversity management

Determining acceptable risk

Denying risk-taking

Dampening desire for risk

Creating risk of unintentional global nuclear war due to nuclear proliferation

Counselling in situations of risk of premature birth

Coordinating chemical risk reduction programmes

Conserving endangered species of mammals

Conserving endangered species of invertebrates

Conserving endangered species of fish

Conserving endangered species of birds

Conserving endangered species of amphibia

Conserving endangered predatory animals

Conducting ecotoxicological studies to assess chemical risk to the environment

Campaigning against war

Avoiding engineering failure

Avoiding capital risk

Assisting developing countries to strengthen chemical risk assessment capabilities

Analysing economic vulnerability

Adopting community right-to-know programmes on chemical risk based on international guidelines

Metadata

Database

Human values

Type

(D) Destructive values

Subject

Societal problems » Hazards

Content quality

Yet to rate

Language

English

1A4N

D5510

DOCID

11455100

D7NID

191611

Last update

Dec 2, 2024