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

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Main Authors: Perrow Charles.
Published: Princeton University Press,
Publisher Address: Princeton, N.J.
Publication Dates: c2007.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Emergency management > United States.
Disasters > Government policy > United States.
Risk management > United States.
Hazard mitigation > United States.
Terrorism > United States > Prevention.
Infrastructure (Economics) > Security measures > United States.
Rampen.
Kwetsbaarheid.
Veiligheid.
Risk management.
Overheidsbeleid.
Terrorisme
Carrier Form: viii, 377 p.: ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780691129976 (cloth : alk. paper)
0691129975 (cloth : alk. paper)
Index Number: X437
CLC: X437.12
X457.12
Call Number: X437.12/P461
Contents: 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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