Man-made disasters / Barry A. Turner and Nick F. Pidgeon
- Bib ID:
- 65580
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Turner, Barry A
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Description:
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- Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997
- xviii, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
- 0750620870 (paperback)
- Summary:
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Originally published in 1978, and with the working sub-title 'The Failure of Foresight', this was the first book to suggest the possibility of systematically looking at the causes of a wide range of disasters. It still provides a theoretical basis for studying the origins of man-made disasters, bringing together relevant work based on a study of inquiries into accidents and disasters in Britain over an eleven-year period.
- Full contents:
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- Foreword / Uriel Rosenthal
- Foreword / Diane Vaughan
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Attempts to understand disasters - I
- 3. Attempts to understand disasters - II
- 4. Three disasters analysed
- 5. The incubation of disasters
- 6. Errors and communication difficulties
- 7. Order and disruption
- 8. Information, surprise and disaster
- 9. Disasters and rationality in organizations
- 10. The origins of disaster
- 11. More recent developments: culture, politics and organizational learning
- Appendix. List of 84 accident and disaster reports published by British Government sources between 1 January 1965 and 31 December 1975 examined in the present study.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-236) and indexes.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Pidgeon, Nick F
- Copyright:
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- Until 2067 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 1997
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