Risks Challenging Publics, Scientists and Governments

ISBN-13: 9780415580724 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 294 str.

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Opis

The contributions in Risks Challenging Publics, Scientists and Government look at risks in a comprehensive way, considering risks not just as a technical, social, political or economic matter, but rather as originating and challenging the various disciplines. Contextual aspects, usually defined by engineers as margin conditions, are generally taken as given and rarely discussed, but deserve much more atttention, particularly when uncertainties are large. Hence the book focuses on topics that received little attention until now, like economic aspects of disasters and land use planning as a mitigation tool. However, the volume also leaves room for more traditional issues, like risk perception, and environmental risk assessment of pollutants, plants, and new substances introduced in the market.

Spis treści

1. Emergency Preparedness: From Contingency Plans to Crisis Management 2. Environment and Public Health: Looking For New Risk Assessment Tools 3. Embedding Social and Economic Perspectives Into Risk Assessment and Management 4. Risk Mitigation Criteria in Land Use Planning And Critical Infrastructures Sitting and Design

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