Normal Accidents : : Living with High Risk Technologies - Updated Edition / / Charles Perrow.
Normal Accidents analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety--building in more warnings and safeguards--fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable. He asserts that typical precautions, by adding t...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (464 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ABNORMAL BLESSINGS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1. Normal Accident at Three Mile Island
- CHAPTER 2. Nuclear Power as a High-Risk System: Why We Have Not Had More TMIs-But Will Soon
- CHAPTER 3. Complexity, Coupling, and Catastrophe
- CHAPTER 4. Petrochemical Plants
- CHAPTER 5. Aircraft and Airways
- CHAPTER 6. Marine Accidents
- CHAPTER 7. Earthbound Systems: Dams, Quakes, Mines, and Lakes
- CHAPTER 8. Exotics: Space, Weapons, and DNA
- CHAPTER 9. Living with High-Risk Systems
- AFTERWORD
- POSTSCRIPT: THE Y 2 K PROBLEM
- LIST OF ACRONYMS
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX