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 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. INDICE: 1. The Societal Capacity to Commit Resources.- 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.

• ISBN: 978-1-84882-601-4
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 192
• Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés