Simon Ashley Bennett

Corruption and the Management of Public Safety (eBook, ePUB)

The Governance of Technological Systems

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes, through the medium of international case studies, how graft undermines public safety.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781003859819
• Artikelnr.: 69854585

Autorenporträt

Simon Ashley Bennett teaches risk management at the University of Leicester, England. He is interested in the organisational, social, economic and political origins of risk. For example, loss of organisational memory, mindlessness, groupthink, corruption, political instability, terrorism and war. He is a member of the Air Safety Group of the Parliamentary Advisory Council for Transport Safety. His books include Systems-thinking for Safety (2019) and Atomic Blackmail? The Weaponisation of Nuclear Facilities during the Russia-Ukraine War (2023).

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
List of tables
Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction: The impact on public safety of corruption
2 Data, definition of terms, method, theory and presentation
3 Case studies
3.1 Nuclear soldiers
3.2 The Marine Electric loss
3.3 The Hillsborough football stadium disaster
3.4 The Adam Air disaster
3.5 The Volkswagen emissions scandal
3.6 The Grenfell Tower disaster
3.7 The Beirut ammonium nitrate explosion
4 Conclusions
5 Policy recommendations
Glossary
Bibliography

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List of figures

List of tables

Preface

Acknowledgements



1 Introduction: The impact on public safety of corruption

2 Data, definition of terms, method, theory and presentation

3 Case studies

3.1 Nuclear soldiers

3.2 The Marine Electric loss

3.3 The Hillsborough football stadium disaster

3.4 The Adam Air disaster

3.5 The Volkswagen emissions scandal

3.6 The Grenfell Tower disaster

3.7 The Beirut ammonium nitrate explosion

4 Conclusions

5 Policy recommendations

Glossary

Bibliography