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Unusually for a social scientist, Perrow also made a prediction – that there would be future disasters at nuclear plants.
Quiet voices must be heeded to avert a future Fukushima | Alister Scott and Jim Watson 2011
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Further back, the seminal study of accidents in complex technologies was Charles Perrow's Normal Accidents, published in 1984.
Quiet voices must be heeded to avert a future Fukushima | Alister Scott and Jim Watson 2011
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Charles Perrow provides an excellent discussion of the latter aspect of this threat in The Next Catastrophe-Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters (Princeton, 2007).
Robert David Steele: 10 High-Level Threats to Humanity Robert David Steele 2010
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Perrow, a Yale professor, analysed accidents in chemical plants, air traffic control, shipping and dams, as well as his main focus: the 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania.
Quiet voices must be heeded to avert a future Fukushima | Alister Scott and Jim Watson 2011
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Charles Perrow provides an excellent discussion of the latter aspect of this threat in The Next Catastrophe-Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters (Princeton, 2007).
Robert David Steele: 10 High-Level Threats to Humanity Robert David Steele 2010
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Charles Perrow provides an excellent discussion of the latter aspect of this threat in The Next Catastrophe-Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters (Princeton, 2007).
Robert David Steele: 10 High-Level Threats to Humanity Robert David Steele 2010
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Smith's "epidemics" in fact veer closely to the extensive work Yale sociology professor and systems expert Charles Perrow has done on what he calls "normal accidents" and disasters.
Robert Teitelman: The Causes of Systemic Disasters Robert Teitelman 2012
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Epidemics, if that's a useful word at all I'd prefer a systemic accident, catastrophe or disaster following Perrow, may differ in the number of necessary factors.
Robert Teitelman: The Causes of Systemic Disasters Robert Teitelman 2012
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This is Perrow's subject, and many of his conclusions speak directly to containment, whether it's a hurricane like Katrina or a nuclear plant meltdown like Fukushima or a market breakdown.
Robert Teitelman: The Causes of Systemic Disasters Robert Teitelman 2012
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Charles Perrow provides an excellent discussion of the latter aspect of this threat in The Next Catastrophe-Reducing Our Vulnerabilities to Natural, Industrial, and Terrorist Disasters (Princeton, 2007).
Robert David Steele: 10 High-Level Threats to Humanity Robert David Steele 2010
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