Search

...perception of the risks of such losses. For the present, however, it is enough to accept that major industrial incidents have important consequences in terms of death, ill health, and environmental and economic impact beyond the initial incident...Assessing risk in engineering, work and life: 2.5 Risk perception - In their everyday lives, people become aware of a variety...

...perceptions of situations will often be different. None of these is explicitly recognised by the conventional sciences such as physics or chemistry. Engineers have to deal with complicated situations, but generally do not concern themselves with human perceptions of situations. Social scientists are usually more concerned with analysis than with taking action, which is...

...perception of what cars are if we want to mitigate their high environmental costs. This doesn’t just mean moving to electric vehicles. Just at the resource extraction level, roughly five tons of materials are needed to produce a 1.2 ton car, creating ten tons of effluents and 2.5 tons of emissions. Processing these materials into components, assembling and distributing...