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The Crisis-Prone Society offers preventative measures that can be taken by business professionals and scholars alike to alleviate the growing potential for crises today. These measures are distilled by close analysis of our recent social history of disasters.

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1. Living in a Crisis Prone World 2. The Risks of Risk Management 3. Why Technology Always Bites Back 4. Why People and Organizations Break Down 5. Economic Crises 6. Political Crises 7. National Insecurity 8. Global Warming 9. The Future of Crises

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Author Ian I. Mitroff: Ian I. Mitroff is Senior Research Associate at the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management at the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley, USA; Professor Emeritus of the University of Southern California, USA; and President of Mitroff Crisis Management. Author Can M. Alpaslan: Can M. Alpaslan is Professor in the Department of Management at California State University, Northridge, USA.

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