The next catastrophe : reducing our vulnerabilities to natural, industrial, and terrorist disasters /
Perrow, Charles.
Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,
c2007.
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.
Emergency management
Disasters
Risk management
Hazard mitigation
Terrorism
Infrastructure (Economics)