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Engineering a Safer World

Hardcover • 2012 • English

Engineering a Safer World

By Nancy G. Leveson

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About the book

Engineering has experienced a technological revolution, but the basic engineering techniques applied in safety and reliability engineering, created in a simpler, analog world, have changed very little over the years. In this groundbreaking book, Nancy Leveson proposes a new approach to safety -- more suited to today's complex, sociotechnical, software-intensive world -- based on modern systems thinking and systems theory. Revisiting and updating ideas pioneered by 1950s aerospace engineers in th...Show more

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ISBN

9780262016629

Publisher

MIT Press

Published year

2012

Language

English

Original title

Engineering a Safer World

Format

Hardcover

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