The Social Roots of Risk: Producing Disasters, Promoting Resilience by Kathleen Tierney

The Social Roots of Risk: Producing Disasters, Promoting Resilience

High Reliability and Crisis Management

Kathleen Tierney

301 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction politics sociology challenging informative medium-paced
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The first decade of the 21st century saw a remarkable number of large-scale disasters. Earthquakes in Haiti and Sumatra underscored the serious economic consequences that catastrophic events can have on developing countries, while 9/11 and Hurrica...

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