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Man-made disasters / Barry A. Turner and Nick F. Pidgeon.

Man-made disasters / Barry A. Turner and Nick F. Pidgeon.
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ISBN 0750620870 (pbk.)
Name Turner, Barry A.
Title Man-made disasters / Barry A. Turner and Nick F. Pidgeon.
Edition 2nd ed.
Published Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997.
Description xviii, 250 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-236) and indexes.
Contents 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.
Summary 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.
Subjects Disaster relief
Disasters
Other Names Pidgeon, Nick F.
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