Title The next catastrophe : reducing our vulnerabilities to natural, industrial, and terrorist disasters / Charles Perrow.

Publication Info.	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2007]
	©2007

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Description	1 online resource (viii, 377 pages)
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.
Summary	Charles Perrow is famous worldwide for his ideas about normal accidents, the notion that multiple and unexpected failures--catastrophes waiting to happen--are built into our society's complex systems. In The Next Catastrophe, he offers crucial insights into how to make us safer, proposing a bold new way of thinking about disaster preparedness. Perrow argues that rather than laying exclusive emphasis on protecting targets, we should reduce their size to minimize damage and diminish their attractiveness to terrorists. He focuses on three causes of disaster--natural, organizational, and deliberate.
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Subject	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.
	NATURE -- Natural Disasters.
	SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disasters & Disaster Relief.
	Disasters -- Government policy. (OCoLC)fst00894786
	Emergency management. (OCoLC)fst00908500
	Hazard mitigation. (OCoLC)fst01737034
	Risk management. (OCoLC)fst01098164
	Terrorism -- Prevention. (OCoLC)fst01148123
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Rampen.
	Kwetsbaarheid.
	Veiligheid.
	Risk management.
	Overheidsbeleid.
	Terrorisme.
Other Form:	Print version: Perrow, Charles. Next catastrophe. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2007 9780691129976 0691129975 (DLC) 2006037984 (OCoLC)76820658
ISBN	9781400827596 (electronic book)
	1400827590 (electronic book)
	9780691129976 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	0691129975 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
	1282158201
	9781282158207

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