Normal AccidentsBasic Books, 18 mei 1984 - 386 pagina's 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. |
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Normal Accident at Three Mile Island | 15 |
Why We Have | 32 |
Complexity Coupling and Catastrophe | 62 |
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