Risks Challenging Publics, Scientists and Governments
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Risks Challenging Publics, Scientists and Governments

  1. 294 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Risks Challenging Publics, Scientists and Governments

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The contributions in Risks Challenging Publics, Scientists and Government looks at risks not just as a technical, social, political or economic matter, but as originating and challenging the various disciplines. Contextual aspects, usually defined by engineers as "margin conditions", are generally not looked at, but deserve much more atttention, pa

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Table of contents

  1. Front cover
  2. Table of contents
  3. Risks challenging publics, scientists and governments: An introduction
  4. Organization
  5. Emergency preparedness: From contingency plans to crisis management
  6. Organisation and structure of Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) special firemen units in Italy
  7. NEDIES: A European portal for the generation and dissemination of lessons learned from disasters
  8. Multi-criteria decision aid for nuclear emergency management: Problem structuring based on a stakeholders survey
  9. The Potenza Province emergency plan: The seismic vulnerability map of buildings for the construction of earthquake damage
  10. Seismic risk assessment: A software procedure for the simulation of damage scenarios in emergency management
  11. Pilot project for a global safety plan on economic areas
  12. Environment and public health: Looking for new risk assessment tools
  13. A framework for decision support on HSE regulations
  14. Nutritional balance, the key to reducing the risks to the health of school children
  15. Release of toxic substances into the atmosphere: Forecast, prevention and protection of the human health Organizational model for the management of Civil Protection interventions
  16. Rapid evaluation of ecological risk in soil with DNA biosensor
  17. Bioindicators to detect environmental damage after “fall out” of pollutants
  18. The soil contamination with cadmium after applications of sewage sludge
  19. Embedding social and economic perspectives into risk assessment and management
  20. Perceptions of risk
  21. Perceived ways to adapt to the potential effects of the climate change in the northernmost Europe
  22. Integrated risk analysis: How to consider coping capacity?
  23. Use of a national population database to aid major hazard modelling and risk estimation
  24. Interdisciplinary quality-of-life parameters as a universal risk measure
  25. Improving information of major technological risks by research in social sciences
  26. Whistleblowing, risk communication as core feature of sustainable management
  27. The contribution of economic and public-private cooperation instruments to the prevention and mitigation of natural hazards
  28. Estimation of economic losses according to the earthquake scenarios for Istanbul
  29. Evaluation of the possible urban planning and insurance policies to create a risk reduction culture in Turkey
  30. Risk mitigation criteria in land use planning and critical infrastructures siting and design
  31. The “seismic behaviour” of urban complex systems
  32. Spatial planning processes, territorial planning law and flood risk in the region of Valencia (Spain)
  33. From structural to systemic: Proposals to make French flood management more consistent and robust
  34. Environmental liability as a prevention tool: A GIS application
  35. Nation’s critical infrastructures: Inherent vulnerabilities and economic fall backs of their unavailability
  36. Safety information systems related to transport of dangerous goods in Norway
  37. Methodology based on indicators for comparison of risks results from diverse energy systems
  38. Implementation of safety management systems in nuclear power plants in Germany and results of a German research project
  39. Determinants of investment risk in processes of transformation and modernization of polish heat energy sector
  40. Environmental conflicts in Hungary—the case of the used battery reprocessing plants
  41. Knowledge based tools for stability verification during pressure equipment life cycle
  42. Author index
  43. Back cover