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- Presents a rational procedure to assess public risks on a universal yardstick such that the outcome is in the public interest
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Series in Reliability Engineering (RELIABILITY)
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About this book
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.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
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.
M.D. Pandey is Professor and NSERC-UNENE Industrial Research Chair for the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He has a BEng degree in Civil Engineering from Bhopal University, India, as well as an MSc and PhD in the same subject from the University of Waterloo.
N.C. Lind is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He received his MSc in Civil and Structural Engineering from the Technical University of Denmark and his PhD in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics fron the University of Illinois.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Engineering Decisions for Life Quality
Book Subtitle: How Safe is Safe Enough?
Authors: J. S. Nathwani, N. C. Lind, M. D. Pandey
Series Title: Springer Series in Reliability Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-602-1
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-84882-601-4Published: 01 October 2009
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-2511-2Published: 14 March 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-84882-602-1Published: 29 September 2009
Series ISSN: 1614-7839
Series E-ISSN: 2196-999X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 189
Topics: Business and Management, general, Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk, Organization