LEADER 05346nam 22008775 450 001 996200059603316 005 20210209220844.0 010 $a9786613845887 010 $a1-4008-3851-7 010 $a1-283-53343-X 010 $a1-282-15820-1 010 $a9786612158209 010 $a1-4008-2759-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400838516 035 $a(CKB)1000000000788491 035 $a(EBL)457877 035 $a(OCoLC)438753660 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000471692 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11312829 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000471692 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10427722 035 $a(PQKB)10883368 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000211086 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12042744 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000211086 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10310347 035 $a(PQKB)11688247 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC664618 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457877 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5543829 035 $a(WaSeSS)Ind00024213 035 $a(DE-B1597)513162 035 $a(OCoLC)711000200 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400838516 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4968603 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4968603 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL215820 035 $a(OCoLC)1027155005 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000788491 100 $a20190523d2011 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Next Catastrophe $eReducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters /$fCharles Perrow 205 $aPaperback ed. 210 1$aPrinceton, NJ : $cPrinceton University Press, $d[2011] 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (387 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-15016-8 311 $a0-691-12997-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [335]-353) and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface to the Paperback Edition. Continuing Catastrophe -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tPart One: Introduction and Natural Disasters -- $t1. Shrink the Targets -- $t2. "Natural" Disasters? -- $tPart Two: Can Government Help? -- $t3. The Government Response The First FEMA -- $t4. The Disaster after 9/11: The Department of Homeland Security and a New FEMA -- $tPart Three: The Disastrous Private Sector -- $t5. Are Terrorists as Dangerous as Management? The Nuclear Plant Threat -- $t6. Better Vulnerability through Chemistry -- $t7. Disastrous Concentration in the National Power Grid -- $t8. Concentration and Terror on the Internet -- $tPart Four: What Is to Be Done? -- $t9. The Enduring Sources of Failure: Organizational, Executive, and Regulatory -- $tAppendix A: Three Types of Redundancy -- $tAppendix B: Networks of Small Firms -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aCharles 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--and shows that our best hope lies in the deconcentration of high-risk populations, corporate power, and critical infrastructures such as electric energy, computer systems, and the chemical and food industries. Perrow reveals how the threat of catastrophe is on the rise, whether from terrorism, natural disasters, or industrial accidents. Along the way, he gives us the first comprehensive history of FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security and examines why these agencies are so ill equipped to protect us. The Next Catastrophe is a penetrating reassessment of the very real dangers we face today and what we must do to confront them. Written in a highly accessible style by a renowned systems-behavior expert, this book is essential reading for the twenty-first century. The events of September 11 and Hurricane Katrina--and the devastating human toll they wrought--were only the beginning. When the next big disaster comes, will we be ready? In a new preface to the paperback edition, Perrow examines the recent (and ongoing) catastrophes of the financial crisis, the BP oil spill, and global warming. 606 $aEmergency management$zUnited States 606 $aDisasters$xGovernment policy$zUnited States 606 $aRisk management$zUnited States 606 $aHazard mitigation$zUnited States 606 $aTerrorism$zUnited States$xPrevention 606 $aInfrastructure (Economics)$xSecurity measures$zUnited States 615 0$aEmergency management 615 0$aDisasters$xGovernment policy 615 0$aRisk management 615 0$aHazard mitigation 615 0$aTerrorism$xPrevention. 615 0$aInfrastructure (Economics)$xSecurity measures 676 $a363.34/7 700 $aPerrow$b Charles, $0106600 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996200059603316 996 $aThe Next Catastrophe$91942414 997 $aUNISA