Normal risk: Technology, sense making, and environmental disasters

Organization and Environment

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 20-26

  Gephart Jr , Robert P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Environmental disasters; Legitimation; Normal accidents; Risk; Sense making

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT; NATURAL DISASTER; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 1542506080     PISSN: 10860266     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1086026603262030     Document Type: Article

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