Author: LA PORTE, Todd R. ed.
Title: Social Responses to Large Technical Systems. Control or Anticipation.
Description: Kluwer Academic Publ., 1991. Hardcover. Very slight bump to lower corners, ex-libirs stamp to title-page. No dj. Presents papers from a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Social Responses to Large Technical Systems: Regulation, Management, or Anticipation. Part of the NATO ASI series, Series D: Behavioural and Social Sciences Vol. 58. Includes essays on facing the collapse of the Washington public power supply system, Iran air flight 655 & the USS Vincennes: complex, large-scale military systems and the failure of control, offshore oil production safety & health regulation in Great Britain & Norway etc. viii, 190pp.

Keywords: social sciences research responses large technical systems military industry industrial health