Learning from Disasters
A Management Approach
Perpetuity Press Ltd
2nd Edition
Published on 1. January 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
130 pages
978-1-899287-05-5 (ISBN)
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Description
This compelling book is essential reading for those involved with risk management, disaster planning, and security and safety management. This second edition includes a new introductory chapter that demonstrates on a theoretical and practical level how risk management can be a cost-effective way of protecting organizations from losses. The book offers important insights into the way organizations implement policies, systems and procedures to prevent future disasters occurring.
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Edition
2nd ed. 1994
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Palgrave Macmillan
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
biography
Dimensions
Height: 21.6 cm
Width: 13.8 cm
ISBN-13
978-1-899287-05-5 (9781899287055)
Schweitzer Classification
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Brian Toft | Simon Reynolds
Learning from Disasters
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Persons
BRIAN TOFT is Research Director in the Risk Consulting Practice of Marsh Ltd. He is also a Visiting Professor of Risk Management at the School of Science and the Environment at Coventry University, UK, and an Honorary Visiting Fellow in Risk Management at the University of Southampton, UK.
SIMON REYNOLDS worked for several years in the power engineering industry. He subsequently became a news editor, specializing in online political and macro-economic news. He now works freelance and regularly contributes to magazines and newsletters.
SIMON REYNOLDS worked for several years in the power engineering industry. He subsequently became a news editor, specializing in online political and macro-economic news. He now works freelance and regularly contributes to magazines and newsletters.
Content
The Management of Risk Disasters as Systems Failures Methodology Generation of Hindsight General Organisational Learning Specific Organisational Learning Case Studies Discussion and Conclusions