Man-Made Catastrophes and Risk Information Concealment: Case Studies of Major Disasters and Human Fallibility (Paperback)

This book discusses the risks of information concealment in the context of major natural or industrial disasters - offering detailed descriptions and analyses of some 25 historical cases (Three Mile Island nuclear accident, Bhopal disaster, Challenger Space Shuttle explosion, Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear disaster, Enron's bankruptcy, Subprime mortgage crisis, Worldwide Spanish flu and SARS outbreaks, etc.) and applying these insights to selected on-ongoing cases where such information concealment is suspected.

Some successful examples of preventive anti-concealment practice are also presented.