Engineering decisions for life quality : how safe is safe enough?
- نوع فایل : کتاب
- زبان : انگلیسی
- مؤلف : Jatin S Nathwani; N C Lind; Mahesh D Pandey
- ناشر : Dordrecht ; New York : Springer,
- چاپ و سال / کشور: 2009
- شابک / ISBN : 9781848826014
Description
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
This text provides a foundation and a theoretical basis for managing risk to an acceptable level under the real-world constraint of limited resources. The principal focus is on the development of guidance for establishing rational standards of practice.
