Making the Most of Mess: Reliability and Policy in Today's Management Challenges

by Emery Roe

Book Overview

In Making the Most of Mess, Emery Roe emphasizes that policy messes cannot be avoided or cleaned up; they need to be managed. He shows how policymakers and other professionals can learn these necessary skills from control operators who manage large critical infrastructures such as water supplies, telecommunications systems, and electricity grids. The ways in which they prevent major accidents and failures offer models for policymakers and other...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822353210
• ISBN13: 9780822353218
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"