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Quantified societal risk and policy making
MAP20070031327
Quantified societal risk and policy making / edited by R. E. Jorissen and P. J. M. Stallen. — Boston [etc.] : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998
240 p. ; 25 cm . — (Technology, risk and society ; 12)
Three conceptions of quantified societal risk -- Flood protection, safety standars and societal risk -- Modeling considerations in the analysis of risk management strategies -- Risk criteria for the transportation of hazardous materials -- 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 -- Protection of man and environment in the vicinity of hazardous installations in Germany -- Risk assessment and risk management: tools and organization -- On the risk of transporting dangerous goods -- Accident risk in complementary transport chains -- An applied economy-look at transport safety -- Issues in societal risk of hazardous chemicals: the use of FN diagrams, data reliability and uncertainty -- Side notes on negative consequences and uncertainty -- FN data need supplement of temporal trend analysis -- Risk-based decision making in the transportation sector -- The need for risk benefit analysis -- Societal risk amid other risk concerns -- Methods and models for the assessment of thrid party risk due to aircraft accidents in the vicinity of airports and their implications for societal risk -- Reflections on source-based approaches -- Quality requerements of societal risk models -- Summary of the issues discussed
ISBN 0-7923-4955-5
1. Gerencia de riesgos ‌. 2. Análisis de riesgos ‌. 3. Riesgo social ‌. 4. Accidentes mayores ‌. 5. Toma de decisiones ‌. I. Jorissen, R. E. ‌. II. Stallen, Pieter Jan M. ‌. III. Technology, risk and society ; 12 ‌. IV. Title.
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