TY - CHAP AU - Luca Franzi ED - Jan Emblemsvag Y1 - 2012-04-25 PY - 2012 T1 - Flood Risk Management in Rivers and Torrents N2 - A large part of academic literature, business literature as well as practices in real life are resting on the assumption that uncertainty and risk does not exist. We all know that this is not true, yet, a whole variety of methods, tools and practices are not attuned to the fact that the future is uncertain and that risks are all around us. However, despite risk management entering the agenda some decades ago, it has introduced risks on its own as illustrated by the financial crisis. Here is a book that goes beyond risk management as it is today and tries to discuss what needs to be improved further. The book also offers some cases. BT - Risk Management for the Future SP - Ch. 11 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/16448 DO - 10.5772/16448 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -