The Next Catastrophe: Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters

by Charles Perrow

Book Overview

Charles Perrow is famous worldwide for his ideas about normal accidents, the notion that multiple and unexpected failures--catastrophes waiting to happen--are built into our society's complex systems. In The Next Catastrophe, he offers crucial insights into how to make us safer, proposing a bold new way of thinking about disaster preparedness.

Perrow argues that rather than laying exclusive emphasis on protecting targets, we should...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691150168
• ISBN13: 9780691150161
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

The Next Catastrophe

Dr. Perrow has done another good job with a difficult and immediate problem. The book is very qualitative and does not touch on many of the quantitative methods available to model threats and how these risks are evaluated by the government and insurance companies. A mention of these methods and techniques, with appropriate references, would add immensely to this book. Kevin MacG. Adams, Ph.D.