Everything about Hazard
Situation or object that can cause harm
A hazard is a potential source of harm. Substances, events, or circumstances can constitute hazards when their nature would potentially allow them to cause damage to health, life, property, or any other interest of value. The probability of that harm being realized in a specific incident, combined with the magnitude of potential harm, make up its risk. This term is often used synonymously in colloquial speech. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: HazardA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Towards next generation design of sustainable, durable, multi-hazard resistant, resilient, and smart civil engineering structuresInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: SuperfundThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Moral Hazard and ObservabilityCited 5,930 times
- Go sideways: Environmental hazardA closely related topic
- Go sideways: DisasterA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes, popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c.
Noun Chance; accident, unpredictability.
Noun The risk of some loss or harm; danger, peril, the chance of an adverse outcome.
Noun A situation involving such a risk of harm or loss; a person or object which poses such a risk, something seen as a source of danger or difficulty.
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Moral Hazard and Observability
Moral Hazard in Teams
Environmental and health hazard ranking and assessment of plastic polymers based on chemical composition
Landslide hazard evaluation: a review of current techniques and their application in a multi-scale study, Central Italy
Forecasting Bankruptcy More Accurately: A Simple Hazard Model
Liberalization, Moral Hazard in Banking, and Prudential Regulation: Are Capital Requirements Enough?
Estimation of toxic hazard—A decision tree approach
The hazard of accelerated tumor clonogen repopulation during radiotherapy
🆕 Influential since 2022
Towards next generation design of sustainable, durable, multi-hazard resistant, resilient, and smart civil engineering structures
Safety issue on PCM-based battery thermal management: Material thermal stability and system hazard mitigation
Landslide hazard assessment using analytic hierarchy process (AHP): A case study of National Highway 5 in India
Centrifuge modelling of landslides and landslide hazard mitigation: A review
A review of machine learning methods for drought hazard monitoring and forecasting: Current research trends, challenges, and future research directions
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕SuperfundUnited States. General Accounting Office · 1987
- 📕Acute Exposure Guideline Levels for Selected Airborne ChemicalsCommittee on Acute Exposure Guideline Levels, Committee on Toxicology · 2001
- 📕Hazardous wasteUnited States. General Accounting Office · 1985
WhiteoutKen Follett · 2004
ZodiacNeal Stephenson · 1988- 📕Hazardous wasteUnited States. General Accounting Office, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs · 1985
Emergency managementClaire B. Rubin · 2007
FeverRobin Cook · 1983
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