Textbooks

Course Packet
1. “Finding Quality Information on the Internet: Tips and Guidelines,” Karen Hartman and Ernest Ackermann, Syllabus pp 52-54, August 1999.
2. “Working with a Writing Partner,” Linda Driskill, The Cain Project, Rice University.
3. "Piper Alpha," Chapter 17 of Trevor Kletz, Learning from Accidents, (Butterworth, 1994) pp 174 184.
4. “Using Tort Law to Allocate Risk,” Dagobert L. Brito
5. Excerpts from “Cases and Materials on Law and Economics,” David W. Barnes and Lynn A. Stout, West Publishing Co. pp: 111-113, 125 127, 142 147
6. “The Learned Hand Formula for Determining Liability from Tort Law Cases and Economic Analysis,” Richard Posner from Tort Law Cases and Economic Analysis pp 1-9
7. "The Accident" Chapter 3 and "The Cause of the Accident" Chapter 4, Report of the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident. (1986).
8. “Introduction” Chapter 1, Report of the Columbia Accident Invesiigation Board (2003)
9. "Basic Reactor Design Features," Chapter 1 of Anthony V. Nero, Jr. A Guidebook to Nuclear Reactors (University of California Press, 1979) pp 3 17
10. "Experiment," Chapter 1 of Victor Haynes and Marko Bojcun, The Chernobyl Disaster (Hogarth, pp 1 10
11. "Chernobyl" and list of nuclear accidents, David Mosey, Reactor Accidents, (Butterworth, 1990) pp 81-98 & pp.7-12.
12. "Chernobyl: the Soviet Report," Nuclear News, September 11, 1986, pp 1 8.
13. "Performance Levels and Error Types", James Reason, (Cambridge University Press, 1990) part of Chapter 3 of Human Error pp 53 82.
14. "Account of the Accident," Report of the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island.
15. "Three Mile Island: the Management Communication Role," J. C. Mathes, Engineering Management International (1986) 261 268.
16. "Apparent Affinities: Normalizing Danger through Simile," Lee Clarke. Chapter 4 of Mission Improbable: Using Fantasy Documents to Tame Disaster (University of Chicago Press,1999) pp. 70 100.
17. "Three Mile Island: a New Species of Trouble," K. Erikson, A New Species of Trouble: Explorations in Disaster, Trauma, and Community, Chapter 4, (W.W. Norton & Co. 1994), pp. 139 157 plus notes 246 249.
18. "The Origins of Accidents," Scott D. Sagan, Chapter 1 of The Limits of Safety (Princeton, 1993), pp. 11 52
19. “Empirical Support for the Economic Approach,” Chapter 2 of Private Choices and Public Health, Tomas J. Philipson and Richard A. Posner (Harvard University Press) pp 57-82.
20. “Undersea Volcanic Eruptions and Submarine Earthquakes,” Douglas Miles, Chapter 3 of The Great Waves, (McGraw-Hill, 1985), pp 27-45.