Human Aspects of Technical Risk Management

Roman Boutellier and Mareike Heinzen
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Roman Boutellier: ETH Zürich
Mareike Heinzen: ETH Zürich

Chapter 18 in Growth Through Innovation, 2014, pp 225-235 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Technology has never been accepted as broadly as it is today. There are three exceptions, however: Nuclear, bio and gene technology. Whether a technology is accepted or not depends less on rational arguments and more on whether we trust the people who run and supervise the technology. As new technology has increased manifold, there is no time to test everything in detail and science does not give us the answers about threshold levels and safety limits. Risk acceptance cannot be calculated. Instead, it has to be discussed in a democratic dispute.

Keywords: Nuclear Power Station; Suspension Bridge; Deepwater Horizon; Freight Train; Critical Control Point (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-04016-5_18

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