The Next Catastrophe : : Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters / / Charles Perrow.
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...
Saved in:
| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
|---|---|
| VerfasserIn: | |
| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Online Access: | |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (432 p.) |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the Paperback Edition. Continuing Catastrophe
- Acknowledgments
- Part One: Introduction and Natural Disasters
- 1. Shrink the Targets
- 2. "Natural" Disasters?
- Part Two: Can Government Help?
- 3. The Government Response The First FEMA
- 4. The Disaster after 9/11: The Department of Homeland Security and a New FEMA
- Part Three: The Disastrous Private Sector
- 5. Are Terrorists as Dangerous as Management? The Nuclear Plant Threat
- 6. Better Vulnerability through Chemistry
- 7. Disastrous Concentration in the National Power Grid
- 8. Concentration and Terror on the Internet
- Part Four: What Is to Be Done?
- 9. The Enduring Sources of Failure: Organizational, Executive, and Regulatory
- Appendix A: Three Types of Redundancy
- Appendix B: Networks of Small Firms
- Bibliography
- Index