Quantified Societal Risk and Policy Making
Editors: Jorissen, Richard E., Stallen, Pieter Jan M. (Eds.)
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Quantified Societal Risk and Policy Making is the result of an international workshop on societal risk organized by the Dutch Ministry for Transport, Public Works and Water Management with additional financial support from the Directorate for Transportation (DG VII) of the European Union.
Managing risks, whether there is a strong man-made or natural component, basically means assessing alternative options under uncertainty. The possibility of multiple fatalities is one of the factors that can vary between options.
This volume is concerned with one particular type of risk - the risk of death of a number of people in one accident - and with one particular tool - probabilistic risk analysis - as they are developing in various domains of society nowadays. Generally, this risk is labelled societal risk. This book shows how such comparisons are shaped at present in various hazard domains, such as:- flood protection
- location and physical planning of industry
- transportation of chemicals, and
- prevention of aircraft accidents.
It examines how to represent aggregate risks from major hazards in ways that can be handled by policy-makers. The purpose of the book is to increase the awareness of societal risk, disseminate available knowledge of existing approaches, and exchange information on applications from various domains.
Quantified Societal Risk and Policy Making should be of interest to all those professionally concerned with defining the optimal separation between hazardous activities and equally desirable developments nearby.
- Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Three Conceptions of Quantified Societal Risk
Pages 1-18
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Flood Protection, Safety Standards and Societal Risk
Pages 19-36
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Modeling Considerations in the Analysis of Risk Management Strategies
Pages 37-40
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Risk Criteria for the Transportation of Hazardous Materials
Pages 41-48
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The Role of Societal Risk in Land Use Planning Near Hazardous Installations and in Assessing the Safety of the Transport of Hazardous Materials at the National and Local Level
Pages 49-61
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Quantified Societal Risk and Policy Making
- Editors
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- Richard E. Jorissen
- Pieter Jan M. Stallen
- Series Title
- Risk, Governance and Society
- Series Volume
- 12
- Copyright
- 1998
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media New York
- eBook ISBN
- 978-1-4757-2801-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4757-2801-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-0-7923-4955-6
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-1-4419-4789-5
- Series ISSN
- 2512-3076
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- X, 242
- Topics
