Risk Engineering

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. Risk Engineering in a Complex World

   • Adrian V. Gheorghe, Ralf Mock

   Pages 1-5

3. Introduction and Background to Risk Engineering

   • Adrian V. Gheorghe, Ralf Mock

   Pages 7-41

4. Decision Sciences and Stakeholders Processes

   • Adrian V. Gheorghe, Ralf Mock

   Pages 43-59

5. Established Methods in Risk Engineering

   • Adrian V. Gheorghe, Ralf Mock

   Pages 61-120

6. Fuzzy Logic in Risk Engineering

   • Adrian V. Gheorghe, Ralf Mock

   Pages 121-138

7. “Fuzzy Risk Analysis” on Plant and Regional Level

   • Adrian V. Gheorghe, Ralf Mock

   Pages 139-215

8. Decision Support Systems in Risk Engineering

   • Adrian V. Gheorghe, Ralf Mock

   Pages 217-240

9. Risk Engineering and Beyond

   • Adrian V. Gheorghe, Ralf Mock

   Pages 241-249

10. Back Matter

    Pages 251-272

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Industrial development is essential to improvement of the standard of living in all countries. People's health and the environment can be affected, directly or indirectly by routine waste discharges or by accidents. A series of recent major industrial accidents and the effect of pollution highlighted, once again, the need for better management of routine and accidental risks. Moreover, the existence of natural hazards complicate even more the situation in any given region. In the past effort to cope with these risks, if made at all, have been largely on a plant by plant basis; some plants are well equipped to manage environmental and health hazards, while others are not. Managing the hazards of modern technological systems has become a key activity in highly industrialised countries. Decision makers are often confronted with complex issues concerning economic and social development, industrialisation and associated infrastructure needs, population and land use planning. Such issues have to be addressed in such a way that ensures that public health will not be disrupted or substantially degraded. Due to the increasing complexity of technological systems and the higher geographical density of punctual hazard sources, new methodologies and a novel approach to these problems are challenging risk managers and regional planers. Risks from these new complex technological systems are inherently different form those addressed by the risk managers for decades ago.

• Stakeholder
• calculus
• decision support
• fuzzy sets
• risk analysis
• sets
• quality control, reliability, safety and risk
• air pollution and air quality
• Engineering Economics

• Centre of Excellence on Risk and Safety Sciences, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

  Adrian V. Gheorghe

• Institute for Energy Technology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland

  Ralf Mock

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