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

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

Author/creator	Perrow, Charles
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2007.
Description	viii, 377 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents only
Supplemental Content	Publisher description
Supplemental Content	Contributor biographical information
Subject(s)	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.

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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-353) and index.
LCCN	2006037984
ISBN	9780691129976 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN	0691129975 (cloth : alk. paper)

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	HV551.3 .P45 2007	✔ Available	Place Hold