1. Books | 2. Papers | 3. Articles| 4. Tutorials

1. BOOKS
(scroll down for papers and articles)

• COOPER, D., GREY, S., RAYMOND, G. AND WALKER, P. (2004)
  Project Risk Management Guidelines - Managing Risk in Large Projects and Complex Procurements. 
  John Wiley, Chichester. 
  ISBN 0 470 02281 7.
  
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• AUSTRALIAN GREENHOUSE OFFICE (2006)
  Climate Change Impacts & Risk Management: A Guide for Business and Government
  Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra.
  ISBN 1 921120 56 8
  (Prepared by Broadleaf Capital International and Marsden Jacob Associates)
  
  Click here for free download from AGO website.

• NEW ZEALAND CENTRE FOR ADVANCED ENGINEERING (2007)
  Challenging the Future:  Connecting the Words in Risk Communication. 
  (Jim Tully, Editor)
  Christchurch. 
  ISBN 0-908993-45-5
  (Contributing authors include Mike Wood, Broadleaf Capital International, based in Wellington, New Zealand).

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• BHP (1996)
  Risk Management Guidelines for BHP.
  The Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd, Melbourne.
• COOPER, D.F. and C.B. CHAPMAN (1987)
  Risk Analysis for Large Projects.
  John Wiley, Chichester.
  ISBN 0 471 91247 6.
  [No longer in print but may be available through libraries]
• COOPER, D.F. (1997)
  Applying Risk Management Techniques to Complex Procurement.
  Purchasing Australia, Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.
  ISBN 0 642 26803 7.
• GREY, S.J. (1995)
  Practical Risk Assessment for Project Management.
  John Wiley, Chichester.
  ISBN 0 471 93979 X.
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• NEW SOUTH WALES GOVERNMENT (1993)
  Risk Management Guidelines.
  NSW Public Works Department, Sydney, November.
  ISBN 0 7310 2704 3.

1. Books | 2. Papers | 3. Articles

2. PAPERS

• CHAPMAN, C.B. and D.F. COOPER (1983)
  Risk engineering: basic controlled interval and memory models.
  J Operational Research Society 34(1): 51-60, January.
• CHAPMAN, C.B. and D.F. COOPER (1983)
  Parametric discounting.
  Omega 11(3): 303-310.

• COOPER, D.F., C.B. CHAPMAN and A.B. CAMMAERT (1983)
  Reliability analysis of an LNG facility.
  Proceedings of the 6th National Conference, Australian Society for Operations Research, Brisbane, 29-31 August, 43-53.
  (This paper was awarded the President's Medal of the Operational Research Society in 1984.)
• CHAPMAN, C.B. and D.F. COOPER (1983)
  Risk analysis: testing some prejudices.
  European J Operational Research 14(3): 238-247.
• CHAPMAN, C.B., D.F. COOPER and A.B. CAMMAERT (1984)
  Model and situation specific OR methods: risk engineering reliability analysis of an LNG facility.
  J Operational Research Society 35(1): 27-35.
• CHAPMAN, C.B., E.D. PHILLIPS, D.F. COOPER and L. LIGHTFOOT (1985)
  Selecting an approach to project time and cost planning.
  International J Project Management 3(1): 19-26.

• COOPER, D.F. and C.B. CHAPMAN (1985)
  An overview of risk analysis for underground projects.
  Underground Space 9(1): 35-40.
• CHAPMAN, C.B. and D.F. COOPER (1985)
  A programmed equity redemption approach to the finance of public projects.
  Managerial and Decision Economics 6(2): 112-118.
• COOPER, D.F., D.H. MACDONALD and C.B. CHAPMAN (1985)
  Risk analysis of a construction cost estimate.
  International J Project Management 3(3): 141-149.
• CHAPMAN, C.B., D.F. COOPER, C.A. DEBELIUS and A.G PECORA (1985)
  Problem-solving methodology design on the run.
  J Operational Research Society 36(9): 769-778.
• CHAPMAN, C.B. and D.F. COOPER (1985)
  Identification and estimation of risk: issues and illustrations from North Sea and Arctic engineering projects.
  Proceedings of the 7th International IFAC/IFORS Symposium on Identification and System Parameter Estimation, York UK, 3-7 July.
• CHAPMAN, C.B. and D.F. COOPER (1985)
  Contract risk analysis for a turnkey project bid: a case study.
  The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance 10(37): 293-305.
• CHAPMAN, C.B. and D.F. COOPER (1985)
  Risk Analysis.
  In G.K. RAND and R.W. EGLISE (Eds), Further Developments in Operational Research, Pergamon, Oxford UK, 12-33.
• COOPER, D.F. and I.R. WATSON (1987)
  How to assess credit risk in swaps.
  The Banker 28-31, February.
• HARRISON, S.L., D.F. COOPER and C.B. CHAPMAN (1988)
  Hydropower at Canford: a case study in investment appraisal.
  J Operational Research Society 39(5): 447-451.
• COOPER, D.F. and BECKETT, S.D. (2005)
  Review of Methodology for Consequence Assessment.
  The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Bureau of Rural Sciences.
  Click here to view.
• Click on this link for more papers by Dr Sam Beckett.
• PURDY, G. (2010)
  ISO 31000:2009 - Setting a New Standard for Risk Management.
  Risk Analysis, Vol 30, No. 6.
  Click here to view.
  The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com
• SHORTREED, J., FRASER, J., PURDY, G. and SCHANFIELD, A. (2012)
  The Future Role of Internal Audit in (Enterprise) Risk Management.
  A White Paper published on the website of the Manhattanville College
  Click here to view.
  Or use this link to go to the Manhattanville College website
  

1. Books | 2. Papers | 3. Articles

3. ARTICLES

From time to time we publish articles about our work.  You might find these useful introductions and overviews.

Follow the links below to download the articles. 

• Thoughts on the Integration of Risk Management (article featured in the New Zealand Society for Risk Management's RiskPost publication, March 2013)
• The quarterly question:  is ISO 31000 fit for purpose? (article featured in Risk Management Professional, June 2012)
• Enhance your Risk Management and Create Value (article featured in Risk Watch, May 2012)
• Keeping it Simple (guest editorial featured in the New Zealand Society for Risk Management's RiskPost publication, August 2011)
• Risk Appetite - is using this concept worth the risk? (article featured in the New Zealand Society for Risk Management's RiskPost publication, September 2011)
• Demystifying Risk Appetite (Presented at SOPAC for the Institute of Internal Auditors, March 2012)
• Preparing for and Defeating Black Swans (an international keynote address to the Enterprise Risk Manangement Africa 2011 Conference, 23 February 2011, Johannesburg, South Africa)
• How Good is our Risk Management? (How Boards Should Find Out) (article featured in Risk Watch, Dec 2010)
• Raising the standard - new ISO risk management standard (article featured in Australasian Risk Management, Sept 2009)
• CURA ISO 31000 Webinar, featuring a transcript of a briefing by Grant Purdy, a Broadleaf Associate Director, presented live on 10 December 2008
• How to bring your ERM Framework into line with ISO 31000
  (presented at the LexisNexis 5th Annual Risk Management Conference, held in Sydney on 29 July 2008)
• Modelling Uncertainty:  The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
  (Keynote address to the Palisade Asia-Pacific User Conference, held in Sydney on 13-14 Sept 2007)
• Climate change impacts and risk management
  (presented at the Climate Change:  What does it mean? seminar for the New Zealand Society for Risk Management, Wellington)
• Project risk assessment techniques
  (article from the Australian Project Manager)
• Risk management in privately funded public sector initiatives
  (article from Corporate Risk)
• Trends in mining project risk management
  (article from the Mining Chronicle)
• Quantitative analysis of risk in mining projects*(article from the Mining Chronicle)
• Hazard analysis in mining projects
  (article from the Mining Chronicle)
• Strategic risk management in mining projects
  (article from the Mining Chronicle)
• Risk management for resource companies
  (article from the Mining Chronicle)

• Risk management and corporate governance
  (presentation to the Risk Engineering Society)

*Extract from
Risk Management Beyond 2001 (NAVSAFE)
presentation.

• Risk Management and PPP projects*
  (Invited presentation to the Western Australian branch of the Australian Institute of Project Management at their showcase conference in Perth, August, 2003)

• National Critical Infrastructure and Risk
  (Invited presentation to the National Critical Infrastructure Security Conference in Sydney, September, 2003)
• Implementing risk management in large projects
  (Invited paper presented to the 2003 Conference of the Project Management Institute of New Zealand (PMINZ) held in Christchurch, New Zealand November, 2003)
• Organisational and Cultural Aspects of Risk Management Implementation
  (Invited paper presented to a workshop on Integrating Risk Management Processes into Project Management sponsored by the Centre for Advanced Engineering, University of Canterbury, Christchurch  New Zealand, 5 November, 2003)

*Extract from
Risk Management and PPP Projects presentation.

*Extract from
Quantitative analysis of risk in mining projects

• Risk analysis and management
  (newspaper article from the Australian Financial Review)
• Modelling future costs
  (newspaper article from Der Standard, Vienna, in German and English)
• Risk Management Beyond 2001*
  (NAVSAFE 01 Conference, 23-24 May, 2001)
• Risk Management and Outsourcing
  (Public Sector Risk Management Conference, 29-31 May, 2001)
• Risk Management Processes in Public Sector Organisations
  (Public Sector Risk Management Conference, 29-31 May, 2001)
• Risk Management for Major Procurements
  (11th International Federation of Purchasing and Materials Management World Congress, Sydney 17-19 November, 1999)
• Risk Analysis for Project Capital Evaluation (Presentation at the Successful Programme & Project Management conference, Singapore, August, 2001)
  

• Comparison of Three Approaches to Project Risk Management*
  (Presentation to the Melbourne Chapter of the PMI, November, 2001) (PowerPoint)
• Developments in project risk management
  (Presentation to the Melbourne Chapter of the PMI, May, 2003)
• Assessing risks in large resource projects
  (Presentation to the Global Association of Risk Professionals, July, 2003)
• Summary of the Lognormal Distribution including definition and formulae (compiled June, 1999)

*Extract from
Comparison of Three Approaches to PRM
presentation. (PowerPoint)