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“saul lemkowitz”

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  • From Safety to Safety Science

    The Evolution of Thinking and Practice

    by Paul Swuste, Jop Groeneweg, Frank W. Guldenmund, Coen van Gulijk, Saul Lemkowitz, Yvette Oostendorp, Walter Zwaard ...
    How do accidents and disasters occur? How has knowledge of accident processes evolved? A significant improvement in safety has occurred during the past century, with the number of accidents falling spectacularly within industry, aviation and road traffic. This progress has been gradual in the context of a changing society. The improvements are partly due to a better understanding of the accident ... Read more

    $86.99 CAD

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  • Risk: An Introduction

    The Concepts of Risk, Danger and Chance

    by Ben Ale ...
    Investments, global warming and crossing the road – risk is a factor embedded in our everyday lives but do we really understand what it means, how it is quantified and how decisions are made? In six chapters Ben Ale explains the concepts, methods and procedures for risk analysis and in doing so provides an introductory understanding of risk perception, assessment and management.Aided by over ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents

    by James Reason ...
    Major accidents are rare events due to the many barriers, safeguards and defences developed by modern technologies. But they continue to happen with saddening regularity and their human and financial consequences are all too often unacceptably catastrophic. One of the greatest challenges we face is to develop more effective ways of both understanding and limiting their occurrence. This lucid book ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty

    From Theory to Practice

    Edited by Vincent A. W. J. Marchau, Warren E. Walker, Pieter J. T. M. Bloemen, Steven W. Popper ...
    This open access book focuses on both the theory and practice associated with the tools and approaches for decisionmaking in the face of deep uncertainty. It explores approaches and tools supporting the design of strategic plans under deep uncertainty, and their testing in the real world, including barriers and enablers for their use in practice. The book broadens traditional approaches and tools ... Read more

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  • Randomistas

    How Radical Researchers Are Changing Our World

    by Andrew Leigh ...
    A fascinating account of how radical researchers have used experiments to overturn conventional wisdom and shaped life as we know itExperiments have consistently been used in the hard sciences, but in recent decades social scientists have adopted the practice. Randomized trials have been used to design policies to increase educational attainment, lower crime rates, elevate employment rates, and ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Methods of Disaster Research

    by Robert A. Stallings ...
    The methods of disaster research are indistinguishable from those used throughout the social sciences. Yet these methods must be applied under unique circumstances. Researchers new to this field need to understand how the disaster context affects the application of the methods of research. This volume, written by some of the worlds leading specialists in disaster research, provides for the first ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Occupational Health and Safety

    by Sharon Clarke ...
    Series series Psychological and Behavioural Aspects of Risk
    Workplace accidents and errors cost organizations hundreds of billions of dollars each year, and the injured workers and their families endure considerable financial and emotional suffering. It's obvious that increasing employee health and safety pays. The accumulating evidence shows that investing in occupational health and safety results in improved financial and social responsibility ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • Theory and Practice in Policy Analysis

    Including Applications in Science and Technology

    by M. Granger Morgan ...
    Many books instruct readers on how to use the tools of policy analysis. This book is different. Its primary focus is on helping readers to look critically at the strengths, limitations, and the underlying assumptions analysts make when they use standard tools or problem framings. Using examples, many of which involve issues in science and technology, the book exposes readers to some of the ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Navigating Safety

    Necessary Compromises and Trade-Offs - Theory and Practice

    by René Amalberti ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    Managing safety in a professional environment requires constant negotiation with other competitive dimensions of risk management (finances, market and political drivers, manpower and social crisis). This is obvious, although generally not said in safety manuals. The book provides a unique vision of how to best find these compromises, starting with lessons learnt from natural risk management by ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Reconstructing Project Management

    by Peter W. G. Morris ...
    This hugely informative and wide-ranging analysis on the management of projects, past, present and future, is written both for practitioners and scholars. Beginning with a history of the discipline’s development, Reconstructing Project Management provides an extensive commentary on its practices and theoretical underpinnings, and concludes with proposals to improve its relevancy and value. Written ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

  • Handbook of Safety Principles

    Edited by Sven Ove Hansson, Jan-Erik Holmberg, Carl Rollenhagen, Niklas Möller ...
    Series Book 9 - Wiley Series in Operations Research and Management Science
    Presents recent breakthroughs in the theory, methods, and applications of safety and risk analysis for safety engineers, risk analysts, and policy makersSafety principles are paramount to addressing structured handling of safety concerns in all technological systems. This handbook captures and discusses the multitude of safety principles in a practical and applicable manner. It is organized by ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

  • Citizen Science in the Digital Age

    Rhetoric, Science, and Public Engagement

    by James Wynn ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    A discussion of the benefits and pitfalls of citizen science—scientific undertakings that make use of public participation and crowd-sourced data collectionJames Wynn’s timely investigation highlights scientific studies grounded in publicly gathered data and probes the rhetoric these studies employ. Many of these endeavors, such as the widely used SETI@home project, simply draw on the processing ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD