The next catastrophe : reducing our vulnerabilities to natural, industrial, and terrorist disasters / Charles Perrow.
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Computer filePublication details: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.Description: viii, 377 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 0691129975 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780691129976 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 363.34/7 22
- HV551.3 .P45 2007
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Formerly CIP.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-353) and index.
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.
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