Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Foreword -- Author's Preface -- 1 Uncertainty and Risk -- Current sources of uncertainty -- Responding to uncertainty -- Distinguishing between uncertainty and risk -- A pragmatic distinction -- Three refinements -- Not all uncertainty is risk -- all risks are uncertain -- 2 Risk and Projects -- What's wrong with projects? -- Why are projects risky? -- Why manage risk in projects? -- 'Risks' or 'risk'? -- Why is risk management important to projects? -- 3 Managing Risk in Practice -- Towards a risk management process -- From narrative to reality -- Describing the risk process -- Not 'one-size-fits-all' -- More than a process -- 4 Risk and People -- Understanding risk attitude -- Influences on the risk attitude spectrum -- Risk attitudes and decision-making -- Risk attitudes and the risk process -- Managing risk attitudes -- People plus process -- 5 Integrating Risk Management with Wider Project Management -- Managing risk throughout the project lifecycle -- Contribution of risk management to other project management disciplines -- 'Built-in not bolt-on' -- 6 The Bigger Picture -- Strategy, tactics and projects -- Hierarchy of objectives, hierarchy of risk -- Project risk management in the programme context -- Enterprise risk management as an integrative framework -- 7 Making Risk Management Work -- Risk energetics -- Internal factors -- External factors -- Risk energetics across the project lifecycle and beyond -- Proving it works -- Why bother? -- And finally… -- References and Further Reading -- Index.