Indetermination and Risk.- Risks and Disasters.- Objective Risk Measures.- Subjective Risk Judgement.- Quality of Life – the Ultimate Risk Measure.- Law and Risk.- Example – Ship Impacts Against Bridges.
Dr. Proske studied civil engineering in Dresden, Germany and
London, U.K. He worked in Germany, South Africa and Indonesia,
before going into scientific research at the Technical University
in Dresden, Germany. In 2003 he received an ESREL award. He
continued his academic career in 2005 at the TU Delft in the
Netherlands. Since 2006 he has served at the University of Life
Sciences, Institute for Mountain Risk Engineering in Vienna,
Austria.
For several years Dr. Proske has been co-organizer of the Dresden
Bridge Construction Conference, which is the biggest conference
concerning this topic in German speaking countries. In 2005 the
event won the Dresden Conference Award. He is also the founder of
the International Probabilistic Symposium/Workshop, which was
started in Dresden in 2003/2004 and continued in Vienna in 2005, in
Berlin in 2006 and in Ghent in 2007.
He has experience in teaching not only Structural Concrete and
Masonry and Hazard and Risk Assessment, but also Integral Risk
Management in Vienna.
From the reviews: "I was surprised to find a well arranged,
extraordinary large and complete, well written description of risks
for humans. I hold in my hands an extensive and remarkable
publication, published by an excellent publisher." em. Prof. Dr.
h.c. Jörg Schneider, Januar 2009 "The author has assembled an
impressive number of tables and figures to illustrate various risks
and specific concepts. ... The selection of tables and figures
provides insight into important risks, and it is useful to have in
one place a listing of various categorization schemes for hazards
and risks, and quality of life metrics." Eos, Vol. 90, No. 2, 13
January 2009, Kristie L. Ebi, ESS, LLC, Alexandria, Va.; "This book
is a must for all scientists, practitioners, academicians,
lecturers, and graduates, who like to know more about risk and
safety in society. The book is very suitable to be used as lecture
material for academic or post-academic courses, but the catalogue
of risks is also suitable as a self study guide or reference work
with all important information on risk and safety present in one
compact book." Georisk, Volume 3 (2009), Issue 1, Pieter van
Gelder, TU Delft, "In the volume’s seven chapters, Proske …
examines risks and disasters, including objective measures,
subjective judgments, quality of life indicators, and laws, using
numerous short examples and statistical summaries drawn from
diverse sources. The tables and figures are the book’s highlights.
… the book’s scope make it a useful reference for professionals and
lay readers willing to do a little homework. Summing Up:
Recommended. Libraries serving graduate students, researchers,
faculty, practitioners, and informed general readers." (S. A.
Batterman, Choice, Vol. 46 (7), March, 2009) "This book presents
risk from the definition through all the factors that risk touches,
such as mathematical methods, society, technology, nature, law and
quality of life, just to name a few. There is so much detailed
information in this book I can’t imagine the huge amount of
research and work that went into writing it.
This is a book that should be slowly and carefully digested in
order grasp and comprehend the full content.
The book was written for: scientists, engineers, practitioners,
academia, lecturers, and students. This book is a must read and
should be on every safety engineers bookshelf. It is a useful
resource for accident-risk statistics in many different fields, as
well as providing insight into all of the various aspect of risk.
In summary, this book provides an excellent detailed compendium on
all of the relevant parameters of risk. It should be required
reading for anyone in the system safety discipline, and anyone just
wanting to know how more about risk. It is not a "how to" manual,
but a summation of contemporary thinking on the subject." Clifton
Ericson II, Fredericksburg, VA
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