Labib, Ashraf. <br/><br/>
Learning from failures :  decision analysis of major disasters / 
Ashraf Labib. 
 - First edition. 
 - Amsterdam ;  Boston :  Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann,  2014. 
 - xi, 321 pages :  illustrations ;  25 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-308) and index. 
<br/><br/> Learning from Failures provides techniques to explore the root causes of specific disasters and how we can learn from them. It focuses on a number of well-known case studies, including: the sinking of the Titanic; the BP Texas City incident; the Chernobyl disaster; the NASA Space Shuttle Columbia accident; the Bhopal disaster; and the Concorde accident. This title is an ideal teaching aid, informed by the author's extensive teaching and practical experience and including a list of learning outcomes at the beginning of each chapter, detailed derivation, and many solved examples for mo. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780124167278 (hardcover) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2014937036 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Emergency management.<br/>Disasters--Case studies.<br/>Disasters.<br/>Emergency management.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Case studies.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HD49  / .L33 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>658.4/056