Next Catastrophe Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters

Name: Next Catastrophe Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters
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ISBN: 9780691150161

ISBN-10: 0691150168

ISBN-13: 9780691150161

Edition: 2011 (Revised)

Authors: Charles Perrow

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Book details

List price: $18.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/11/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 432
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.17" long x 1.22" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

Charles Perrow is professor emeritus of sociology at Yale University. He has worked as a consultant for the U.S. military, the White House, and the nuclear-power industry.



Preface to the Paperback Edition


Acknowledgments



Introduction and Natural Disasters



Shrink the Targets



"Natural" Disasters?



Can Government Help?



The Government Response: The First FEMA



The Disaster after 9/11: The Department of Homeland Security and a New FEMA



The Disastrous Private Sector



Are Terrorists as Dangerous as Management? The Nuclear Plant Threat



Better Vulnerability through Chemistry



Disastrous Concentration in the National Power Grid



Concentration and Terror on the Internet



What Is to Be Done?



The Enduring Sources of Failure: Organizational, Executive, and Regulatory



Three Types of Redundancy



Networks of Small Firms


Bibliography


Index