Normal accidents : living with high-risk technologies
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Normal accidents : living with high-risk technologies
Basic Books, c1984
- : hbk
- : pbk
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Bibliography: p. 367-375
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk ISBN 9780465051427
Description
A noted Yale sociologist examines how and why catastrophic accidents occur in high-tech industriesnuclear power, petrochemical, and aerospaceand argues that they are becoming nearly inevitable in our advanced technological society..
Table of Contents
Introduction Nuclear Power as a High-Risk System: Why We Have Not Had More TMIsBut Will Soon Complexity, Coupling, and Catastrophe Petrochemical Plants Aircraft and Airways Marine Accidents Earthbound Systems: Dams, Quakes, Mines, and Lakes Exotics: Space, Weapons, and DNA Living with High-Risk Systems List of Acronyms
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: hbk ISBN 9780465051434
Description
Analyzes the social side of technological risk. Charles Perrow argues that the conventional engineering approach to ensuring safety - building in more warnings and safeguards - fails because systems complexity makes failures inevitable.
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