- Author
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Oyola-Yemaiel, A.
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Wilson, J.
- Title
- Terrorism and System Failure: A Revisited Perspective of Current Development Paradigms.
- Coporate
- North Dakota State Univ., Fargo
- Journal
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International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters,
Vol. 21,
No. 3,
25-40,
November 2003
- Keywords
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terrorism
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terrorists
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disasters
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World Trade Center
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systems failures
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human beings
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human behavior
- Identifiers
- World Trade Center (110-story-high) Towers, Manhattan, New York, September 11, 2001; social vulnerability to terrorism; how a localized terrorist attack became a national disaste; how the World Trade Center terrorist attack shows symptons of system failure; why the twin towers were chosen as a target; understanding system failure through differentiation and social change; inherent vulnerabilities of our evolutionary development process; nature of vulnerability to terrorism in complex societies; reducing system vulnerability through redundancy and independence