Accidents and Disasters: Lessons from Air Crashes and Pandemics

by Satish Chandra

Book Overview

This book deals with the contemporary subject of perception of risk and its influence on accidents and disasters. The contents examine the conventional viewpoints on human errors, incubation of errors, complexity and organisational deviance as a cause for accidents. Work of Mary Douglas with regard to risk, Charles Perrow's work on the normal accident theory and Diane Vaughan's theory on normalisation of deviance are examined from a fresh perspective...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 981199983X
• ISBN13: 9789811999833
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 155 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"