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Next catastrophe : reducing our vulnerabilities to natural, industrial, and terrorist disasters /
Charles Perrow is famous worldwide for his ideas about normal accidents, the notion that multiple and unexpected failures--catastrophes waiting to happen--are built into our society's complex systems. In The Next Catastrophe, he offers crucial insights into how to make us safer, proposing a bol...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton Univ Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Charles Perrow is famous worldwide for his ideas about normal accidents, the notion that multiple and unexpected failures--catastrophes waiting to happen--are built into our society's complex systems. In The Next Catastrophe, he offers crucial insights into how to make us safer, proposing a bold new way of thinking about disaster preparedness. Perrow argues that rather than laying exclusive emphasis on protecting targets, we should reduce their size to minimize damage and diminish their attractiveness to terrorists. He focuses on three causes of disaster--natural, organizational, and deliberate. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (l, 377 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-353) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400838516 1400838517 9780691129976 0691129975 0691150168 9780691150161 |