Perrow, Charles.

The next catastrophe : reducing our vulnerabilities to natural, industrial, and terrorist disasters / Charles Perrow. - Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007. - viii, 377 p. ; 24 cm.

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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Emergency management--United States.
Disasters--Government policy--United States.
Risk management--United States.
Hazard mitigation--United States.
Terrorism--Prevention.--United States
Infrastructure (Economics)--Security measures--United States.
Rampen.
Kwetsbaarheid.
Veiligheid.
Risk management.
Overheidsbeleid.
Terrorisme.

HV551.3 / P45 2007

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