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Unsafety - Disaster Management, Organizational Accidents, and Crisis Sciences for Sustainability (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
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Unsafety - Disaster Management, Organizational Accidents, and Crisis Sciences for Sustainability (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)
Series: Translational Systems Sciences, 7
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This is the first book to examine the linkages among natural and
organizational accidents and disasters in the modern era and
clarifies the mechanisms involved and the significance of emerging
problems, from the aging of vital infrastructure for the supply of
water, gas, oil, and electricity to the breakdown of pensions,
healthcare, and other social systems. The book demonstrates how we
might check the underlying civilizational collapse and then explore
translational systems approaches toward resilient management and
policy for sustainability. In Unsafety, the author focuses on the
kinds of unnatural disasters and organizational accidents that
arise as repercussions of natural hazards. Japan serves as an
example, where earthquakes, tsunamis, and typhoons are common, with
the Fukushima nuclear disaster as an outstanding case of this link
between natural disasters and organizational accidents. Natural and
human-made disasters happen worldwide and cause misery through loss
of life; destruction of livelihoods as in agriculture, fisheries,
and the manufacturing industry; and interruption of urban life.
Unsafety from a disaster in one place increases uncertainty
elsewhere, presenting urgent issues in all nations for individuals,
organizations, regions, and the state. The author explains that one
factor in the Fukushima catastrophe, which followed in the wake of
the earthquake and tsunami in 2011, was the latent deterioration
and aging of systems at all levels from the physical to the social,
leading through a chain reaction to unsought and unforeseen
consequences. Here, the aging of the nuclear reactor system, the
breakdown of safety management, and inappropriate instructions from
the regulatory authorities combined to create the three-fold
disaster, in which technological, organizational, and governmental
dysfunction have been diagnosed as reflecting a "systems pathology"
infecting all levels.
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