In risk management research, risk-taking is mostly treated as deviation that calls for improved risk communication. I argue, however, that risk-taking should be seen as expressing a rationale of its own; thus, improving safety requires that this rationale be adequately understood and that the...

Books reviewed: Armin Bunde, Jurgen Kropp, Hans-Joachim Schellnhuber (eds.), The Science of Disasters: Climate Disruptions, Heart Attacks, and Market Crashes J. Holzgrefe & Robert O. Keohane (eds.), Humanitarian Intervention: Ethical, Legal and Political Dilemmas Nat Brandt, Chicago Death Trap:...

Organisation theorists and practitioners alike have become greatly interested in high reliability in the management of large hazardous technical systems and society's critical service infrastructures. But much of the reliability analysis is centred in particular organisations that have command...

Critical infrastructures (CIs) are 'balky systems' of highly diverse, networked components with such high performance variations among them that there are few modal behaviors that characterize these infrastructures as whole systems. Consequently, they are under-determined with respect to design...