Major Hazards Onshore and Offshore II

Major Hazards Onshore and Offshore II
Author: Norbert Gibson
Publisher: IChemE
Total Pages: 668
Release: 1995
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780852953662

This text presents papers from the second conference on major hazards onshore and offshore, held in Manchester in October 1995. Contents include papers on gas dispersion and explosion modelling, fire and explosions, management of safety and human factors, and risk analysis and hazard assessment.

Library Bulletin

Library Bulletin
Author: Great Britain. Depts. of the Environments and Transport. Library Services
Publisher:
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1990
Genre: Environmental engineering
ISBN:

History of Technology Volume 26

History of Technology Volume 26
Author: Ian Inkster
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2016-09-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1350019046

The technical problems confronting different societies and periods and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. It deals with the history of technical discovery and change and explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic - and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.

History of Technology Volume 26, 2005

History of Technology Volume 26, 2005
Author: Ian Inkster
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2006-03-13
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0826489702

Presents essays concerning about the technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and also the measures taken to solve them. This book deals with the history of technical discovery and change, and explores the relationship of technology to other aspects of life - social, cultural and economic.

Risk Abstracts

Risk Abstracts
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1991
Genre: Risk
ISBN:

Provides citations and abstracts to the literature on risks arising from industrial, technological, environmental, and other sources, with an emphasis on assessment of the magnitude and probability of risk and the management of risk. The broad, multidisciplinary coverage of risk-related concerns ranges from public and environmental health to social issues and psychological aspects. Major areas of coverage include review articles, models and forecasting, technological risks, natural hazards, biological risks, environmental risks, medical and environmental health, economics and organization, industrial and labor, policy and planning, sociological factors, psychological aspects.