Video: Managing risk in an increasingly hazardous world

5/1/2008 12:33 pm

Watch video of Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Mark Abkowitz discussing risk and his book, "Operational Risk Management."

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Visit the author's book Web site.

Media contact: David Salisbury, (615) 322-NEWS
david.salisbury@vanderbilt.edu

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