Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 451 pages)
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9781400828494
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140082849X
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9781283379809
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1283379805
Content:
"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 accidents. (At Chernobyl, tests of a new safety system helped produce the meltdown and subsequent fire.) By recognizing two dimensions of risk - complex versus linear interactions, and tight versus loose coupling - this book provides a powerful framework for analyzing risks and the organizations that insist we run them." -- Jacket
Note:
Originally published: New York : Basic Books, 1984
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 426-439) and index
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Abnormal blessings -- Introduction -- Normal accident at Three Mile Island -- Nuclear power as a high-risk system: why we have not had more TMIs ... but will soon -- Complexity, coupling, and catastrophe -- Petrochemical plants -- Aircraft and airways -- Marine accidents -- Earthbound systems: dams, quakes, mines, and lakes -- Exotics: space, weapons, and DNA -- Living with high-risk systems -- Afterword -- Postscript: the Y2K problem -- List of acronyms.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0691004129
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691004129
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Perrow, Charles, 1925 - 2019 Normal accidents Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press, 1999 ISBN 0691004129
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691004129
Language:
English
Subjects:
Engineering
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Economics
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General works
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Psychology
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Sociology
Keywords:
Technisches System
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Fehlerquelle
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Katastrophe
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Störfall
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Risiko
;
Unfall
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Technik
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Risiko
;
Industrieanlage
;
Unfallrisiko
Author information:
Perrow, Charles 1925-2019
