In this interview with Professor Terje Aven by associate professor Marja Ylönen, Aven reflects on what it means to be a risk scientist, and how risk science relates to neighboring fields and disciplines. He touches on these topics:
- Risk versus other disciplines 0:30
- What risk science covers — assessment, perception, communication, management and governance of risk 2:20
- Generic versus applied risk science 3:00
- Conceptual research and argumentation as a scientific method 3:50
- How applied work feeds back into generic risk science — an IPCC example 6:05
- A core knowledge base for risk science 8:15
- Overlaps with statistics, decision science, safety, security, resilience and reliability 13:30
- Disciplinary boundaries as a social as well as a conceptual question 14:00
- Testing the boundary — Ulrich Beck’s risk society 16:00
Aven also reflects on whether risk science is a normal science or still pre-paradigmatic, its role as a reference science for other fields, and what it ultimately means to be a risk scientist. This episode offers reflections for scholars, students, and practitioners on the identity and scope of risk science.
Host: Associate Professor Marja Ylönen
Guest: Professor Terje Aven, University of Stavanger
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