The next catastrophe : reducing our vulnerabilities to natural, industrial, and terrorist disasters / Charles Perrow.

Author/creator Perrow, Charles
Format Book
Publication InfoPrinceton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2007.
Descriptionviii, 377 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentTable of contents only
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Supplemental ContentContributor biographical information
Subjects
Emergency management--United States.
Disasters--Government policy. --United States.
Risk management--United States.
Hazard mitigation--United States.
Terrorism--United States. --Prevention.
Infrastructure (Economics)--Security measures. --United States.

Contents Shrink the targets -- "Natural" disasters? -- The government response : the first FEMA -- The disaster after 9/11 : the Department of Homeland Security and the new FEMA -- Are terrorists as dangerous as management? -- Better vulnerability through chemistry -- Disastrous concentration in the national power grid -- Concentration and terror on the Internet -- The enduring sources of failure : organizational, executive, and regulatory -- Appendix A: Three types of redundancy -- Appendix B: Networks of small firms.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [335]-353) and index.
LCCN 2006037984
ISBN9780691129976 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0691129975 (cloth : alk. paper)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks HV551.3 .P45 2007 ✔ Available Place Hold