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Subject: SFI Colloquium, Charles Perrow, Emeritus, Yale University,
Department of Sociology Thursday April 24 3:30pm
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http://www.santafe.edu/sfi/events/seminarAbstracts******* SFI COLLOQUIUM Thursday, April 24, 3:30pm ***
Location: Noyce Conference Room
Title: "Disasters, Interdependencies and Networks"
Speaker: Charles Perrow
Affiliation: Yale University, Emeritus, Department of Sociology
Abstract:
> Natural, industrial, and deliberate disasters have increased in the US
> in the last quarter century. I examine how the US is structurally
> configured to induce them, and find it hard to respond to them.
> Radical decentralization is recommended to reduce two forms of
> interdependency. A brief look at power grids, the Internet, networks
> of small firms, and terrorist organizations suggests ways to utilize
> two other forms of interdependency and have efficient systems that are
> scale free.
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> Bae Smith
> Research Assistant
> Santa Fe Institute
> 1399 Hyde Park Road
> Santa Fe, NM 87501
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> 505-984-8800 ext. 282
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