Man-made Catastrophes and Risk Information Concealment Case Studies
This book discusses the risks of information concealment in the context of major natural or industrial disasters – offering detailed descriptions and analyses of some 25 historical cases (Three Mile Island nuclear accident, Bhopal disaster, Challenger Spa
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Man-made Catastrophes and Risk Information Concealment
Case Studies of Major Disasters and Human Fallibility
Man-made Catastrophes and Risk Information Concealment
Dmitry Chernov · Didier Sornette
Man-made Catastrophes and Risk Information Concealment Case Studies of Major Disasters and Human Fallibility
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Dmitry Chernov ETH Zurich Zürich Switzerland
Didier Sornette ETH Zurich Zürich Switzerland
ISBN 978-3-319-24299-6 ISBN 978-3-319-24301-6 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-24301-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015950008 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
The manuscript consists of five chapters. First, an introduction sets the landscape and motivations. The second chapter is a series of 25 detailed case studies (plus 20 other cases more superficially covered), where the concealment of risk played an important and obvious role in the causation of the reported catastrophes. In the third chapter, the relevant aspects, which contributed to the risk concealment, are systematically gathered and analyzed. In the fourth chapter, possible signs for imminent risks in current technologies—such as fracking, cyber risks, and genetic engineering—are investigated. In the fifth chapter, a few positive examples are collected that show how with an open, transparent culture of communication corresponding risks could be reduced. Our main goal is to show by the force of characteristic examples how prevalent the problem of concealment of information is in its many incarnations. The reader, layman or risk management, should come out of the reading of our examples with an aha moment, realizing how ubiquitous and important this dimension of human behavior is with respect to critical objects. This paints quite a different
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