Engineering Decisions for Life Quality: How Safe Is Safe Enough?
Engineering Decisions for Life Quality: How Safe is Safe Enough? provides a foundation and a theoretical basis for managing risk to an acceptable level under the real-world constraint of limited resources. The focus is not on risks as such, but on what...
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Engineering Decisions for Life Quality: How Safe is Safe Enough? provides a foundation and a theoretical basis for managing risk to an acceptable level under the real-world constraint of limited resources. The focus is not on risks as such, but on what can be done to maximize the positive outcomes of risk in terms of improvements to the quality of life.
The principal focus of Engineering Decisions for Life Quality: How Safe is Safe Enough? is on the development of guidance for establishing rational standards of practice. Standards should meet the requirement of utilizing resources to achieve the maximum net overall benefit to society within society's capacity to commit such resources.
The ideas discussed within this book will be of interest to engineers; advanced undergraduate and graduate students; public health officials; and risk specialists.
2. Social Indicators for Managing Risk
3. Judging Risks Using the Life Quality Method
4. Air Quality Standards
5. Nuclear Safety
6. Port Cities with High Exposure to Flood
7. Optimal Design of a Flood Protection Levee
8. Closure
J.S. Nathwani is Professor and Ontario Research Chair in Public Policy for Sustainable Energy Management at the Faculty of Engineering and Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of Waterloo, Canada. He is also Executive Director at the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy and Director of the Institute for Risk Research. Professor Nathwani holds a BSc, MSc and PhD in Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry from the University of Toronto.
- Autoren: J. S. Nathwani , N. C. Lind , M. D. Pandey
- 2009, 189 Seiten, Maße: 15,6 x 23,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
- ISBN-10: 184882601X
- ISBN-13: 9781848826014
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