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Florida, 1986

challenger disaster

Challenger Spaceshuttle Disaster

Photos: NASA/Corbis

CCRM Research

2007: Disaster Law and Inequality.  Daniel A. Farber. (Law and Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice. 25:2 297-291.)

2007: Reinventing Flood Control. Daniel A. Farber Robert G. Bea, Karlene Roberts, Edward Wenk, and Kofi Inkabi. (Tulane Law Review 81:4 1085-1127.)

2006: Approaches to Achieve Adequate Quality and Reliability. Robert Bea. (UCB Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering papers.)

2006: Disasters and the Law: Katrina and Beyond.  Daniel A. Farber and Jim Chen. (St. Paul, Minnesota. West Publishing Co.)

2006: Economic Impacts of Delta Levee Failure Due to Climate Change: A Scenario Analysis. Sebastian Vicuna, Michael Hanemann and Larry Dale. (A Report from the California Climate Change Center.)

2006: An Instrument of Risk Management and the Law. Robert Bea. (UCB Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering papers.)

2006: Investigation of the Performance of the New Orleans Flood Protection Systems in Hurrican Katrina on August 29, 2005. Raymond Seed, Robert Bea and their team of 30 researchers. (National Science Foundation, 350-page report. )

2006: Learning from Failures: Lessons from theRecent History of Failures of Engineered Systems. Robert Bea. (UCB Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering papers.)

2006: Mitigating Hazards Through Continuing Design: The Birth and Evolution of a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit. Peter Madsen, Vinit M. Desai, Karlene H. Roberts and Daniel Wong. (Organizational Science, Vol. 00, No. 0, pp. 1-10.)

2006: Target Reliabilities for Engineering: A Primer. Robert Bea. (UCB Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering papers.)

2005: The Space Between in Space Transportation: A Relational Analysis of the Failure of STS107. Karlene H. Roberts, Peter Madsen and Vinit M. Desai. (Organization at the Limit: NASA and the Columbia Disaster, Ed. by M. Farjoun and W. Starbuck.)

2005: Why Some Companies Emerge Stronger and Better From a Crisis. Ian Mitroff. (AMACOM, New York.)

2000?: The Incident Command System: High Reliability Organizing for Complex and Volatile Task Environments. Gregory A. Bigley, Karlene H. Roberts. (Academy of Management Journal, Vol. 44, pp. 1281-1300.)

1993: Collective Mind in Organizations: Heedful Interrelating on Flight Decks. (Cornell University.)

 

 

New Orleans, Louisiana, 2005

katrina animation
Levee Breach, Hurricane Katrina

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