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  • Trapping Safety into Rules

    How Desirable or Avoidable is Proceduralization?

    by Mathilde Bourrier ...
    Rules and procedures are key features for a modern organization to function. It is no surprise to see them to be paramount in safety management. As some sociologists argue, routine and rule following is not always socially resented. It can bring people comfort and reduce anxieties of newness and uncertainty. Facing constant unexpected events entails fatigue and exhaustion. There is also no doubt ... Read more

    $234.99 USD

  • Risk Communication for the Future

    Towards Smart Risk Governance and Safety Management

    Edited by Mathilde Bourrier, Corinne Bieder ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
    The conventional approach to risk communication, based on a centralized and controlled model, has led to blatant failures in the management of recent safety related events. In parallel, several cases have proved that actors not thought of as risk governance or safety management contributors may play a positive role regarding safety. Building on these two observations and bridging the gap between ... Read more

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  • Governing Risk in GM Agriculture

    Edited by Mathilde Bourrier, Michael Baram ...
    This book addresses the issues and methods involved in governing risks posed by genetically modified (GM) agriculture. It examines the evolution of policies intended to ensure the safety of GM crops and food products in the United States and Europe and the regulatory approaches and other social controls employed to protect human health, the environment, conventional farming and foods, and the ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • Managing the Global Health Response to Epidemics

    Social science perspectives

    Edited by Mathilde Bourrier, Nathalie Brender, Claudine Burton-Jeangros ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Public Health
    Recent epidemics have prompted large-scale international interventions, aimed at mitigating the spread of disease in a globalized world. During a crisis, however, global health actions including planning and organizing, communicating about risk, and cost benefit evaluations aren’t usually part of a single, integrated global response. Arguing that an uncoordinated approach can be challenged by ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Decommissioning Aging Installations and Declining Technologies

    Burden or Inspiration?

    Edited by Mathilde Bourrier ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Safety Management
    This open-access brief tackles the idea, prevalent in some industrial sectors, that decommissioning, de-pollution and waste management are a necessary evil rather than a predictable phase of industry for which preparations can and should be made in advance. The brief forms the beginning of a conversation on the conditions under which current examples of decommissioning and phasing-out could help ... Read more

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  • The Coupling of Safety and Security

    Exploring Interrelations in Theory and Practice

    Edited by Corinne Bieder, Kenneth Pettersen Gould ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This open access book explores the synergies and tensions between safety and security management from a variety of perspectives and by combining input from numerous disciplines. It defines the concepts of safety and security, and discusses the methodological, organizational and institutional implications that accompany approaching them as separate entities and combining them, respectively.The book ... Read more

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  • Safety Cultures, Safety Models

    Taking Stock and Moving Forward

    Edited by Claude Gilbert, Benoît Journé, Hervé Laroche, Corinne Bieder ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    The objective of this book is to help at-risk organizations to decipher the “safety cloud”, and to position themselves in terms of operational decisions and improvement strategies in safety, considering the path already travelled, their context, objectives and constraints. What link can be established between safety culture and safety models in order to increase safety within companies carrying ... Read more

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    C++ Parallel Programming with Threading Building Blocks

    by Michael Voss, Rafael Asenjo, James Reinders ...
    Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
    This open access book is a modern guide for all C++ programmers to learn Threading Building Blocks (TBB). Written by TBB and parallel programming experts, this book reflects their collective decades of experience in developing and teaching parallel programming with TBB, offering their insights in an approachable manner. Throughout the book the authors present numerous examples and best practices ... Read more

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  • New and Old Routes of Portuguese Emigration

    Uncertain Futures at the Periphery of Europe

    Edited by Cláudia Pereira, Joana Azevedo ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book offers a comparative overview on Portuguese emigration in Europe and outside the EU in times of recession. It looks at Portuguese emigrants who, after the crisis of 2008, moved both intra-EU, such as UK, France, Switzerland, Germany and Spain, but also into countries with historical links, such as the USA and Canada, and to Portuguese speaking countries such as Brazil, Angola ... Read more

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  • Aquaponics Food Production Systems

    Combined Aquaculture and Hydroponic Production Technologies for the Future

    Edited by Simon Goddek, Alyssa Joyce, Benz Kotzen, Gavin M. Burnell ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This open access book, written by world experts in aquaponics and related technologies, provides the authoritative and comprehensive overview of the key aquaculture and hydroponic and other integrated systems, socio-economic and environmental aspects. Aquaponic systems, which combine aquaculture and vegetable food production offer alternative technology solutions for a world that is increasingly ... Read more

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  • Modern Mathematics Education for Engineering Curricula in Europe

    A Comparative Analysis of EU, Russia, Georgia and Armenia

    Edited by Seppo Pohjolainen, Tuomas Myllykoski, Christian Mercat, Sergey Sosnovsky ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the core subjects comprising mathematical curricula for engineering studies in five European countries and identifies differences between two strong traditions of teaching mathematics to engineers. The collective work of experts from a dozen universities critically examines various aspects of higher mathematical education.The two EU Tempus ... Read more

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  • Elements of Robotics

    by Mordechai Ben-Ari, Francesco Mondada ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This open access book bridges the gap between playing with robots in school and studying robotics at the upper undergraduate and graduate levels to prepare for careers in industry and research. Robotic algorithms are presented formally, but using only mathematics known by high-school and first-year college students, such as calculus, matrices and probability. Concepts and algorithms are explained ... Read more

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