Water risks and security are a major global hazard in the 21st century and it is essential that water professionals have a solid grounding in the principles of preventative risk management.
This second edition of the key textbook, Risk Management for Water and Wastewater Utilities, extends beyond first principles and examines the practicalities of resilience and vulnerability assessment, strategic risk appraisal and the interconnectedness of water utility risks in a networked infrastructure. It provides an up-dated overview of tools and techniques for risk management in the context of the heightened expectations for sound risk governance that are being made of all water and wastewater utilities.
Risk Management for Water and Wastewater Utilities provides a valuable starting point for newly appointed risk managers in the utility sector and offers MSc level self-paced study with self-assessment questions and abbreviated answers, key learning points, case studies and worked examples.
- ISBN10 1780407475
- ISBN13 9781780407470
- Publish Date 15 May 2016 (first published 18 January 2008)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint IWA Publishing
- Edition 2nd edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 180
- Language English
- URL http://iwapublishing.com/books/9781780407470/risk-management-water-and-wastewater-utilities-%E2%80%93-second-edition