This is the first book to examine the linkages among natural and organizational accidents and
disasters in the modern era and clarifies the mechanisms involved and the significance of
emerging problems from the aging of vital infrastructure for the supply of water gas oil
and electricity to the breakdown of pensions healthcare and other social systems. The book
demonstrates how we might check the underlying civilizational collapse and then explore
translational systems approaches toward resilient management and policy for sustainability.In
Unsafety the author focuses on the kinds of unnatural disasters and organizational accidents
that arise as repercussions of natural hazards. Japan serves as an example where earthquakes
tsunamis and typhoons are common with the Fukushima nuclear disaster as an outstanding case
of this link between natural disasters and organizational accidents. Natural and human-made
disasters happen worldwide and cause misery through loss of life destruction of livelihoods as
in agriculture fisheries and the manufacturing industry and interruption of urban life.
Unsafety from a disaster in one place increases uncertainty elsewhere presenting urgent issues
in all nations for individuals organizations regions and the state. The author explains that
one factor in the Fukushima catastrophe which followed in the wake of the earthquake and
tsunami in 2011 was the latent deterioration and aging of systems at all levels from the
physical to the social leading through a chain reaction to unsought and unforeseen
consequences. Here the aging of the nuclear reactor system the breakdown of safety management
and inappropriate instructions from the regulatory authorities combined to create the
three-fold disaster in which technological organizational and governmental dysfunction have
been diagnosed as reflecting a systems pathology infecting all levels.
