STATES OF EMERGENCY - Patrick Lagadec

ContentsIntroductionPART ONETechnical Breakdown, Crisisand DestabilizationFramework of Reference1. The weapons of crisis ........................................................................................ 111. An unusual event in a metastable context .......................................................... 122. Crisis dynamics................................................................................................... 212. Organizations with their backs to the wall...................................................... 231. Classic destabilization scenarios ......................................................................... 242. Slipping out of control ....................................................................................... 35PART TWOTechnological Crisis and the Actors Involved3- In the thick of things ....................................................................................... 43- Marc Becam ....................................................................................................... 45The oil spill from the "Amoco Cadiz", March - May, 1978- Richard Thornburgh........................................................................................... 55Three Mile Island, March - April, 1979- Douglas K. Burrows .......................................................................................... 66The great Mississauga evacuation, November 10-16. 1979- Péter-J.Hargitay ............................................................................................... 75The Bhopal disaster, December 2-3, 1984