Modern Encyclopaedia of Disaster Management (5 Vols-Set)

Contents: Vol. I: Theoretical Perspectives on Disaster Management: Preface. 1. Theories of risk perception: who fears what and why? 2. Causes of disaster: sloppy management. 3. A sociological analysis of Dud behaviour. 4. Control over bureaucracy: cultural theory and institutional variety. 5. Risk communication and the social amplification of risk: theory, evidence and policy implications. 6. Risk taking in the banking industry. 7. Risk and governance Part I: the discourses of climate change. 8. Risk and governance part II: policy in a complex and plurally perceived world. 9. Connecting normal accidents theory and high reliability theory. 10. Operationalising the theory of cultural complexity. 11. The social viability of technology. 12. Risk as a forensic resource. 13. From industrial society to the risk society: questions of survival structure and ecological enlightenment. 14. Managing crime risk. Index.

Vol. II: Perspectives on the Ethics of Disaster Management: Preface. 1. The ethical dimensions of disaster. 2. What is industrial sabotage? 3. Crime and punishment in the factory. 4. Endemic and planned corruption in a monarchical rule. 5. Major chemical accidents in industrializing countries. 6. Rumors and crises (a case study in the banking industry). 7. Financial distress prediction models. 8. Early-warning-signals management. 9. Towards a systemic crisis management strategy. 10. The role of risk and return of information technology. 11. Close coupled disasters how oil, majors are de-integrating. 12. Autonomy, interdependence and social control. Index.

Vol. III: Perspectives on Industrial Disaster Management: Preface. 1. Introduction. 2. The human side of the banks credit management of small firms. 3. Management of banks loans to small firms in a market with asymmetric information. 4. Prevention of disaster. 5. The man-machine interface and its impact on shipping safety. 6. Organisation and the management of safety risks in the chemical process industry. 7. The development of safety culture. 8. Culture, politics, learning and man-made disasters. 9. The schematic report analysis diagram (A simple aid to learning from large-scale failures). 10. Decision making under contradictory certainties (How to save the Himalayas?). 11. Organisations and systematic distortion of information. 12. Safety culture, corporate culture (Organisations transformation and the commitment to safety). 13. The failure of Hindsight. Index.

Vol. IV: Perspectives on Organisational Disaster Management: Preface. 1. The psychology of risk perception. 2. Human factor failure and the comparative structure of jobs. 3. Management of radiation hazards in hospitals (Plural rationalities in a single institution). 4. Explaining risk perception: an empirical evaluation of cultural theory. 5. Organisational and interorganisational development of disaster. 6. Causes of planes crash and big business failure. 7. Understanding industrial crises. 8. What is organisational failure? 9. Organisational escalation and exit. 10. Challenging the orthodoxy in risk management. Index.

Vol. V: Disaster Management in Technology and Culture: Preface. 1. Managing risk in advanced manufacturing technology. 2. Engineering risk. 3. Measuring disaster trends. 4. Measuring disaster trends: statistics and underlying processes. 5. Culture and communications. 6. Identifying the cultural causes of disaster (An analysis of the Hillsborough Football Stadium disaster). 7. Technical analysis of IIASA energy scenarios. 8. The culture of high reliability: (Quantitative and Qualitative Assessment Aboard Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carriers). 9. Techniques for measuring company health. 10. As framework for crisis management. 11. global environment change: management under long-range uncertainty. 12. Corporate risk management. 13. Risk, uncertainty and nuclear power. 14. Crisis management and environmentalism: a natural fit. Index.