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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.
Subjects:
Emergency management > United States
Disasters > Government policy > United States.
Risk management > United States
Hazard mitigation > United States.
Terrorism > Prevention > United States
Infrastructure (Economics) > Security measures > United States.
Table of 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.

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