TY  - BOOK
AU  - Labib,Ashraf
TI  - Learning from failures: decision analysis of major disasters 
SN  - 9780124167278 (hardcover)
AV  - HD49 .L33 2014
U1  - 658.4/056 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Amsterdam, Boston
PB  - Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann
KW  - Emergency management
KW  - Disasters
KW  - Case studies
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-308) and index
N2  - 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
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