Risks Challenging Publics, Scientists and Governments

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, particularly when uncertainties are large. This book focuses on topics that received little attention until now, like economic aspects of disasters and land use planning as a mitigation tool. However, the volume also leaves room for more traditional issues, like risk perception, and environmental risk assessment of pollutants, plants, and new substances introduced in the market.

Risks Challenging Publics, Scientists and Government is divided in four parts:

• Emergency preparedness: from contingency plans to crisis management
• Environment and public health: looking for new risk assessment tools
• Embedding social and economic perspectives into risk assessment and management
• Risk mitigation criteria in land use planning and critical infrastructures siting and design

The book is particularly of interest to scientists in engineering, physics, medicine, biology, and social sciences focusing on risk aspects, risk analysis, and risk assessment.

Chapter 1 : Risks Challenging Publics, Scientists and Governments : An introduction Organization

Part I : Emergency Preparedness : From Contingency Plans to Crisis Management
Chapter 2 : Organization and Structure of Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear (CBRN) Special Firemen Units in Italy
Chapter 3 : NEDIES : A European Portal For The Generation and Dissemination of Lessons Learned From Disasters
Chapter 4 : Multi-Criteria Decision Aid For Nuclear Emergency Management: Problem Structuring Based on A
Stakeholders Survey
Chapter 5 : The Potenza Province Emergency Plan : The Seismic Vulnerability Map of Buildings For The Construction of Earthquake Damage Scenarios
Chapter 6 : Seismic Risk Assessment : A Software Procedure For The Simulation of Damage Scenarios in Emergency Management
Chapter 7 : Pilot Project For A Global Safety Plan on Economic Areas

Part II : Environment and Public Health: Looking For New Risk Assessment tools
Chapter 8 : A Framework For Decision Support on HSE Regulations
Chapter 9 : Nutritional Balance, The Key to Reducing The Risks to The Health of School Children
Chapter 10 : Release of toxic Substances into The Atmosphere : Forecast, Prevention and Protection of The Human Health
Chapter 11 : Organizational Model For The Management of Civil Protection interventions
Chapter 12 : Rapid Evaluation of Ecological Risk in Soil With DNA Biosensor
Chapter 13 : Bioindicators to Detect Environmental Damage After "Fall Out" of Pollutants
Chapter 14 : The Soil Contamination With Cadmium After Applications of Sewage Sludge

Part III : Embedding Social and Economic Perspectives into Risk Assessment and Management
Chapter 15 : Perceptions of Risk
Chapter 16 : Perceived Ways to Adapt to The Potential Effects of The Climate Change in The Northernmost Europe
Chapter 17 : integrated Risk Analysis: How to Consider Coping Capacity?
Chapter 18 : Use of A National Population Database to Aid Major Hazard Modeling and Risk Estimation
Chapter 19 : interdisciplinary Quality-of-Life Parameters As A Universal Risk Measure
Chapter 20 : Improving information of Major Technological Risks By Research in Social Sciences
Chapter 21 : Whistleblowing, Risk Communication As Core Feature of Sustainable Management
Chapter 22 : The Contribution of Economic and Public-Private Cooperation instruments to The Prevention and
Mitigation of Natural Hazards
Chapter 23 : Estimation of Economic Losses According to The Earthquake Scenarios For Istanbul
Chapter 24 : A. Taylan, Evaluation of The Possible Urban Planning and insurance Policies to Create A Risk Reduction Culture in Turkey

Part IV : Risk Mitigation Criteria in Land Use Planning and Critical infrastructures Sitting and Design
Chapter 25 : The "Seismic Behaviour" of Urban Complex Systems
Chapter 26 : Spatial Planning Processes, Territorial Planning Law and Flood Risk in The Region of Valencia (Spain)
Chapter 27 : From Structural to Systemic : Proposals to Make French Flood Management More Consistent and Robust
Chapter 28 : Nation’s Critical infrastructures: inherent Vulnerabilities and Economic Fall Backs of Their Unavailability
Chapter 29 : Safety information Systems Related to Transport of Dangerous Goods in Norway
Chapter 30 : Methodology Based on indicators For Comparison of Risks Results From Diverse Energy Systems
Chapter 31 : Implementation of Safety Management Systems in Nuclear Power Plants in Germany and Results of A German Research Project
Chapter 32 : Determinants of investment Risk in Processes of Transformation and Modernization of Polish Heat
Energy Sector
Chapter 33 : Environmental Conflicts in Hungary - The Case of The Used Battery Reprocessing Plants
Chapter 34 : Knowledge Based tools For Stability Verification During Pressure Equipment Life Cycle

Author index