Classes of socio-technical hazards allow a characterization of the risk in technology innovation and clarify the mechanisms underpinning emergent technological risk. Emerging Technological Risk provides an interdisciplinary account of risk in socio-technical systems including ha…
Radio reporter Herbert Morrison's words on witnessing the destruction of the Hindenburg (Oh, the humanity!) are etched in our collective memory. Yet while we use the Hindenburg --like the Titanic --as shorthand for the technological hubris of a bygone era, we seem to have forgot…
"Oh, the humanity!" Radio reporter Herbert Morrison?s words on witnessing the destruction of the -- Monsters Such foolishness is not limited to the industrial age: newer examples of pathological technologies include the US government?s planned use of hydrogen bombs for large-sca…
"Examines the perils of what the author calls pathological technologies, inventions whose sizeable risks are routinely minimized as a result of their almost mystical allure, "--Novelist.
"Based on the author's 20 years of experience, Risk Analysis in Engineering: Techniques, Tools, and Trends presents an engineering approach to probabilistic risk analysis (PRA). It emphasizes methods for comprehensive PRA studies, including techniques for risk management. The au…