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

Main Author: Perrow, Charles
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
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245 1 4 |a The next catastrophe :  |b reducing our vulnerabilities to natural, industrial, and terrorist disasters /  |c Charles Perrow. 
260 1 4 |a Princeton, N.J. :  |b Princeton University Press,  |c c2007. 
300 1 4 |a viii, 377 p. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 1 4 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-353) and index. 
505 1 4 |a 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. 
650 1 4 |a Emergency management  |z United States 
650 1 4 |a Disasters  |x Government policy  |z United States. 
650 1 4 |a Risk management  |z United States 
650 1 4 |a Hazard mitigation  |z United States. 
650 1 4 |a Terrorism  |x Prevention  |z United States 
650 1 4 |a Infrastructure (Economics)  |x Security measures  |z United States. 
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