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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?"
Lessons in Disaster
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Pages: 342
Authors: Gordon M. Goldstein
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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
Dynamics of Disaster
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Pages: 240
Authors: Barbara Allen
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Disasters are the result of complex interactions between social and natural forces, acting at multiple scales from the individual and community to the organisat
Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster
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Authors: Eugenie L. Birch
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Disasters—natural ones, such as hurricanes, floods, or earthquakes, and unnatural ones such as terrorist attacks—are part of the American experience in the
Lessons from Disaster
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: Trevor A. Kletz
Categories: Business & Economics
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993 - Publisher: Gulf Professional Publishing

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It is by avoiding accidents that the process industries will improve their public image. Lessons from Disaster focuses upon the apparent inability of organizati