[en] This handbook is intended to serve as a tool for designers of equipment and scientific instruments when they are required to ensure the survival of the equipment in radiation environments. High technology materials, especially semiconductors, optics and organic materials, tend to degrade on exposure to radiation in many different ways. Hence the need for a guidebook to that set of radiation effects. As for the radiation environments, first, space has a naturally high radiation level. Secondly, the surface of the Earth is radioactive at a low level. When we go down a uranium mine or explore space, we run into much higher levels. Man makes even higher levels for a multitude of purposes. Intense high-energy radiation environments are found in nuclear reactors and accelerators, machines for radiation therapy, and industrial sterilization. Some engineers have to build equipment which will survive a nuclear explosion from a hostile source. Finally, there is the huge problem of machining or handling intensely radioactive isotopes such as spent nuclear fuel rods or radiotherapy capsules and dealing with the dispersed radioactivity from a nuclear accident. Having provided an introductory background on the main types of radiation, radiation environments and the interaction of radiation and solids, we go into detail on the more sensitive technologies and discuss in depth the best solutions for spacecraft, terrestrial robots and imagers. (Author)