Engineering Decisions for Life Quality: How Safe is Safe Enough?

by Jatin S. Nathwani; Mahesh D. Pandey; Niels C. Lind | Springer | eText ISBN 9781848826021
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...

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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.

Book details

  • Author: Jatin S. Nathwani; Mahesh D. Pandey; Niels C. Lind
  • Publisher: Springer
  • eText ISBN: 9781848826021
  • Print ISBN: 9781848826014
  • Format: Fixed Layout
  • Language: en
  • Copyright: 2009