@article{1468240,
      recid = {1468240},
      author = {Chandra, Satish,},
      title = {Accidents and disasters : lessons from air crashes and  pandemics /},
      pages = {1 online resource (186 pages)},
      abstract = {This book deals with the contemporary subject of  perception of risk and its influence on accidents and  disasters. The contents examine the conventional viewpoints  on human errors, incubation of errors, complexity and  organisational deviance as a cause for accidents. Work of  Mary Douglas with regard to risk, Charles Perrow's work on  the normal accident theory and Diane Vaughn's theory on  normalisation of deviance are examined from a fresh  perspective in this book. It also discusses prominent  accidents in aviation, space, nuclear energy, automotive  and healthcare, using the pandemic and Boeing 737 Max as a  backdrop to study accidents and disasters. It further  explores the background and similarities to these events  and addresses the core issues such as the state of  regulation, the worldview of the sociologists, and proposes  that mental models of complex systems, avarice and risk for  gain as other possibilities for accidents. Using the  concept of nudge in behavioural economics and the Elinor  Ostroms viewpoint on regulating for common good, it  suggests a way forward through the High Reliability  Organisation Theory (HRO) leading to enhanced risk  perception. The book will be of interest to those who would  like to understand the need to incorporate risk perception  into regulation, engineers and scientists, professionals  and policy makers working in the areas of disaster and risk  management, technology areas like aviation, nuclear plants,  space and healthcare, students of the sociology of risk and  of course the general reader.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1468240},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-9984-0},
}