Quiz 1 Environmental Risk Management

'The potential consequences of a hazard combine with their likelihood or probabilities'. This statement refers to:

• Risk

• Risk assessment

'A situation or biological, chemical or physical agent that managed to harm or cause'. This statement refers to:

• Hazard

• Risk

'Individual who are invested in, or affected by an issue or situation'. This statement refers to:-

• Stakeholder

• Shareholder

'The process of appraising options for responding to risk and deciding which to implement'. This statement refers to:

• Risk assessment

• Risk management

'The formal process of evaluating the consequences of a hazard and their likelihoods or probabilities'. This statement refers to:

• Risk management

• Risk assessment

__________ refers to the structure and processes for decision-making that involve non-governmental an governmental actor.

• Governance

• Government

• Governmental

• Non-governmental

__________ is the process of identifying the likely consequences of decisions, establishing the importance of individual factors and selecting the best course of action to take to manage an environmental risk.

• Decided

• Decision

• Decision-making

• Making decision

__________ is adopting a strategy to increase the likelihood of exploiting unexpected positive effect.

• Exploiting

• Exploiting risk

• Priorities

• Prioritising

__________: An environment protected from harm or adverse effects from natural or human processes so that resources are sustained for future generation.

• Environment

• security

• Secure environmental

• Environmental security

__________ is limitations in knowledge about environmental impacts and the factors that influence them.

• Certainty

• Uncertainty

• Aleatory uncertainty

• Epistemic uncertainty