risk · uncertainty
Ask Prometheusa possible loss that may happen
Risk (noun) means: a possible loss that may happen. It emerges from loss, possible, happen: a potential change involving the absence of something that was present, occurring over time. In the EmergenceLexicon it sits at computed level 4, chaining down to the four foundations (space, time, energy, pattern).
Examples
- The 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers exposed $639 billion in unforeseen liabilities. economics
- The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant failed containment after the 11 March 2011 tsunami. engineering
- In 1986, the Chernobyl reactor explosion released 400 times more radioactivity than the Hiroshima bomb. institutions
Emergence
through: a potential change involving the absence of something that was present, occurring over time
- contingent negative outcome
- temporal possibility
- eventuated loss
Chain to foundations
full chain as text (15 steps)
Neighborhood
Concepts that depend on this one above; what it is built from below.
Used by (2)
Relations
| is-a | issue.problem | risk is a kind of problem |
| contrasts-with | security.safety | risk contrasts with safety |