Normal accidents : living with high-risk technologies / Charles Perrow.
Normal accidents : living with high-risk technologies / Charles Perrow.
Normal accidents : living with high-risk technologies / Charles Perrow.
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Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press, 1999.
Date
1999.
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N363.1/38
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English
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Physical content
x, 451 p.
Contents
Abnormal Blessings -- 1. Normal Accident at Three Mile Island -- 2. Nuclear Power as a High-Risk System: Why We Have Not Had More TMIs - But Will Soon -- 3. Complexity, Coupling, and Catastrophe -- 4. Petrochemical Plants -- 5. Aircraft and Airways -- 6. Marine Accidents -- 7. Earthbound Systems: Da...
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Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press, 1999.
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New Jersey
Date Published
1999.
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"Normal Accidents 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. He asserts that typical precautions, by adding to complexity, may help create new categories of...
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Normal accidents : living with high-risk technologies / Charles Perrow.
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Reprint. Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1984.
"With a new afterword and a postscript on the Y2K problem"
Includes bibliographical references (p. 426-439) and index.
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N363.1/38
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74VvzM8GVga3
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0691004129 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780691004129 (pbk.)
0691004129 (pbk.)
9780691004129 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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363.1
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991009344859702626
