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The next catastrophe : reducing our vulnerabilities to natural, industrial, and terrorist disasters
- Title
- The next catastrophe : reducing our vulnerabilities to natural, industrial, and terrorist disasters / Charles Perrow.
- Author
- Perrow, Charles.
- Publication
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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- Description
- viii, 377 p.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-353) and index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 07-3545
- ISBN
- 9780691129976 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0691129975 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2006037984
- OCLC
- 76820658
- Author
- Perrow, Charles.
- Title
- The next catastrophe : reducing our vulnerabilities to natural, industrial, and terrorist disasters / Charles Perrow.
- Imprint
- Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-353) and index.
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- Research Call Number
- JFE 07-3545