- Author
- Oyola-Yemaiel, A. | Wilson, J.
- Title
- Terrorism and System Failure: A Revisited Perspective of Current Development Paradigms.
- Coporate
- North Dakota State Univ., Fargo
- Journal
- International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, Vol. 21, No. 3, 25-40, November 2003
- Keywords
- terrorism | terrorists | disasters | World Trade Center | systems failures | human beings | 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