Risk & Crisis Management: lezioni ed esempi dalla storia Si ringrazia Federico Fontolan per la traduzione italiana di questo post apparso in inglese la settimana scorsa. Ok, in questo blog parliamo di risk management, risk communication, crisis management ed altre idee moderne, giusto? Bene, allora parliamo di alcune di queste “idee moderne” che per la verità sono comparse a Roma duemila anni fa. Da quanto risulta, la prima “Autorità per la Gestione del Fiume Tevere” (Curator alvei Tiberis), fu istituita dall’Imperatore…
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Risk and Crisis Management lessons, and example, from history OK, so in this blog we talk about risk management, risk communication, crisis management and other modern ideas, right? Well let’s talk about these “modern ideas” that actually arose in Rome two thousand years ago. Reportedly the first “Tiber River Management Authority” (Curator alvei Tiberis) was established by Emperor Augustus during a general restructuring of Roman administrations in charge of “highways”, water, fire protection and police. Under this new management concept…
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Teaching Risk and Crisis Management. What has changed In a few months Riskope will celebrate another important anniversary. In 2012 we celebrated two decades of risk and crisis management, decision making support and consulting. In spring 2014 we will reach fifteen years of specialized courses and seminars on the same subject. As we found in our archives the Table of Content of the course we were giving at University of British Columbia (continuous education) UBC in 1999 we decided to…
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The very recent tragic accident in the Sasago Tunnel in Japan brings memories of our first mission in that country, in the aftermath of the Toyohama Tunnel accident in Furubira Town (Hokkaido, Japan) on February 10, 1996 (Toyohama Tunnel Rockfall). The collapse of Toyohama tunnel crushed cars and a bus, killing 20 people in 1996. The causes of that failure were very different from the present case, but that’s not the point to be discussed here. At that time, local…
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