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Learning from Disasters
Author | : Brian Toft,Simon Reynolds |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 145 |
Release | : 2016-07-27 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781349279029 |
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This compelling book offers an important insight into the way organizations implement policies and procedures to prevent future disasters occurring. The third edition includes an introductory chapter which demonstrates on a theoretical and practical level a number of reasons why individuals and groups of people fail to learn from disasters in the first place. Based on thorough research, Learning from Disasters is essential reading for all those involved in risk management, disaster planning and security and safety management.
A Safer Future
Author | : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,U.S. National Committee for the Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction |
Publsiher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 85 |
Release | : 1991-02-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780309045469 |
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Initial priorities for U.S. participation in the International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, declared by the United Nations, are contained in this volume. It focuses on seven issues: hazard and risk assessment; awareness and education; mitigation; preparedness for emergency response; recovery and reconstruction; prediction and warning; learning from disasters; and U.S. participation internationally. The committee presents its philosophy of calls for broad public and private participation to reduce the toll of disasters.
Learning from Disaster
Author | : Sheila Jasanoff |
Publsiher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2016-11-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781512803358 |
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Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title The 1984 lethal gas leak at the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, may be the most extensively studied industrial disaster in history. In a departure from earlier studies that have focused primarily on the causes of the catastrophe, Sheila Jasanoff and the contributors to this volume critically examine the consequences of the accident.
Learning from Disasters
Author | : Port Disaster School Support Project (S. Aust.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 45 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Disaster relief |
ISBN | : 0724373438 |
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Learning from a Disaster
Author | : Scott D. Sagan,Edward D. Blandford |
Publsiher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2016-04-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780804797368 |
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This book—the culmination of a truly collaborative international and highly interdisciplinary effort—brings together Japanese and American political scientists, nuclear engineers, historians, and physicists to examine the Fukushima accident from a new and broad perspective. It explains the complex interactions between nuclear safety risks (the causes and consequences of accidents) and nuclear security risks (the causes and consequences of sabotage or terrorist attacks), exposing the possible vulnerabilities all countries may have if they fail to learn from this accident. The book further analyzes the lessons of Fukushima in comparative perspective, focusing on the politics of safety and emergency preparedness. It first compares the different policies and procedures adopted by various nuclear facilities in Japan and then discusses the lessons learned—and not learned—after major nuclear accidents and incidents in other countries in the past. The book's editors conclude that learning lessons across nations has proven to be very difficult, and they propose new policies to improve global learning after nuclear accidents or attacks.
Lessons from Disaster
Author | : Trevor A. Kletz |
Publsiher | : IChemE |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Chemical industry |
ISBN | : 0852953070 |
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This series of essays on safety and loss prevention is aimed at helping the process industries avoid accidents and improve its public image. The central message is the apparent inability of organizations to learn, and retain in the long term, the lessons drawn from accidents. Thus incidents of a similar type recur within the same company at intervals of a decade or so, as personnel involved move on to other jobs.
Learning and Calamities
Author | : Heike Egner,Marén Schorch,Martin Voss |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 2014-08-13 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781134475810 |
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It is widely assumed that humanity should be able to learn from calamities (e.g., emergencies, disasters, catastrophes) and that the affected individuals, groups, and enterprises, as well as the concerned (disaster-) management organizations and institutions for prevention and mitigation, will be able to be better prepared or more efficient next time. Furthermore, it is often assumed that the results of these learning processes are preserved as "knowledge" in the collective memory of a society, and that patterns of practices were adopted on this base. Within history, there is more evidence for the opposite: Analyzing past calamities reveals that there is hardly any learning and, if so, that it rarely lasts more than one or two generations. This book explores whether learning in the context of calamities happens at all, and if learning takes place, under which conditions it can be achieved and what would be required to ensure that learned cognitive and practical knowledge will endure on a societal level. The contributions of this book include various fields of scientific research: history, sociology, geography, psychoanalysis, psychiatry, development studies and political studies, as well as disaster research and disaster risk reduction research.
Stay safe and be prepared a parent s guide to disaster risk reduction
Author | : UNESCO |
Publsiher | : UNESCO |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2014-10-20 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9789231000454 |
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