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Catastrophe and Systemic Change [electronic resource] : learning from the Grenfell Tower Fire and other disasters.

Summary:

Catastrophe and Systemic Change focuses on the Grenfell Tower fire and uses it as a detailed case study to examine the issue of how we (don't) learn from disasters and catastrophes. The mantra ""lessons will be learned"" is often just a fig leaf to cover inaction. The Covid-19 pandemic may well be the latest catastrophe that we really won't learn from.

Record details

ISBN: 1913019314
ISBN: 9781913019310
Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 p.)
Publisher: London : London Publishing Partnership, 2021.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Description based upon print version of record.
Formatted Contents Note:	Front cover -- Half title -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Introduction: the book I wish I'd never had to write -- PART I: THE GRENFELL TOWER FIRE -- Chapter 1: The Grenfell Tower fire: not just the cladding -- Chapter 2: Before, during and after: getting in the tunnel -- PART II: ANALYSIS AND REFLECTIONS -- Chapter 3: Complexity, safety and systemic change: 'making the water visible' -- Chapter 4: Foundational elements: 'of bricke or stone' -- Chapter 5: Behavioural elements: 'blame fixes nothing' Chapter 6: Relational elements: 'I thought I will make happy both of them' -- Chapter 7: Contextual elements: 'the patronising disposition of unaccountable power' -- Chapter 8: The democratization of change: of despair and hope -- Acknowledgements -- Endnotes -- Back cover
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.