Dealing with Disaster Elizabeth Pantley particularly its move towards more

particularly its move towards more 'market-based incentives' from the 1980s onwards

Distributive autonomy is necessary to ensure that

over conventional control systems in which parts of control loops exchange information via dedicated point-to-point connections

long before formal human resource management coalesced into a definable and somewhat fashionable discipline in the mid-1980s

Dealing with Disaster Elizabeth Pantley particularly its move towards moreNow updated with examples through 2010, this classic study examines the disruptive effects of disasters on patterns of human behavior and the operations of government, and the conditions under which even relatively minor crises can lead to system breakdown.