In 2005 the event won the Dresden Conference Award. Proske has been co-organizer of the Dresden Bridge Construction Conference, which is the biggest conference concerning this topic in German speaking countries. Since 2006 he has served at the University of Life Sciences, Institute for Mountain Risk Engineering in Vienna, Austria.įor several years Dr. He continued his academic career in 2005 at the TU Delft in the Netherlands. He worked in Germany, South Africa and Indonesia, before going into scientific research at the Technical University in Dresden, Germany. Proske studied civil engineering in Dresden, Germany and London, U.K. Safety and risks cannot be discussed only by looking at specific problems, since increasing safety in individual fields might lead to a decrease of safety over the entire society. The book clearly shows the interdependence of risk measures. However, limitations of this concept are also disclosed. In general this parameter permits the comparison of the efficiency of all safety measures over the entire human society. The explanation of risk parameters (such as mortalities, fatal accident rates, the family of F-N curves and the concept of lost life years) leads to the quality of life parameters as measurements of risk. Risk parameters are introduced to allow the objective description of risks.
Furthermore disasters and risks are categorized into natural, technical, health and social risks, and then major disasters in these categories are listed. In the beginning terms such as risk, disaster, indeterminacy and uncertainty are discussed in detail in this book. This is mainly due to the growing concern about the future of mankind, but also to a greater awareness of the limited nature of our resources. The term risk has experienced a dramatic growth in usage over the last few years.
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