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Language: en
Pages: 244
Pages: 244
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-11-07 - Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Even before the wreckage of a disaster is cleared, one question is foremost in the minds of the public: "What can be done to prevent this from happening again?"
Language: en
Pages: 342
Pages: 342
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-03 - Publisher: Times Books
A revelatory look at the decisions that led to the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, drawing on the insights and reassessments of one of the war's architects "I had
Language: en
Pages: 240
Pages: 240
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-09-13 - Publisher: Routledge
Disasters are the result of complex interactions between social and natural forces, acting at multiple scales from the individual and community to the organisat
Language: en
Pages: 413
Pages: 413
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-01-09 - Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Disasters—natural ones, such as hurricanes, floods, or earthquakes, and unnatural ones such as terrorist attacks—are part of the American experience in the
Language: en
Pages: 196
Pages: 196
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing
It is by avoiding accidents that the process industries will improve their public image. Lessons from Disaster focuses upon the apparent inability of organizati