Gerald Mars, Honorary Professor of Anthropology, University College, London, UK and David T.H. Weir, Professor, CERAM SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France

"... the volumes do bring together many key articles that should be read by all with an interest in risk management - the explosion of risk-related issues, from foot and mouth disease, Californian electricity regulation and Railtrack's ongoing problems to the Turnbull Report, all indicate that the field will grow in recognised importance during this century." Risk Management: An International Journal

• Acknowledgements Series Preface Introduction Estimating Engineering Risk 2. Measuring Disaster Trends, Part I: Some Observations on the Bradford Fatality Scale 3. Measuring Disaster Trends Part II: Statistics and Underlying Processes 4. Financial Distress Prediction Models: A Review of their Usefulness 5. Early-Warning-Signals Management: A Lesson From the Barings Crisis 6. Towards a Systemic Crisis Management Strategy: Learning From the Best Examples in the US, Canada and France 7. The Role of Risk and Return in Information Technology Outsourcing Decisions 8. Close-Coupled Disasters: How Oil Majors are De-Integrating and Then Managing Contractors 9. Autonomy, Interdependence and Social Control: NASA and the Space Shuttle Challenger 10. Complexity, Tight-Coupling and Reliability: Connecting Normal Accidents Theory and High Reliability Theory 11. Culture and Communications: Countering Conspiracies in Organizational Risk Management 12. Identifying the Cultural Causes of Disasters: An Analysis of the Hillsborough Football Stadium Disaster 13. Technical Analysis of the IIASA Energy Scenarios 14. From Crisis Prone to Crisis Prepared: A Framework for Crisis Management 15. Global Environmental Change: Management Under Long-Range Uncertainty 16. Operationalizing the Theory of Cultural Complexity: A Practical Approach to Risk Perceptions and Workplace Behaviours 17. Managing Risk in Advanced Manufacturing Technology 18. The Culture Of High Reliability: Quantative and Qualitative Assessment Aboard Nuclear-Powered Aircraft Carriers 19. Company Failure or Company Health? - Techniques for Measuring Company Health 20. Corporate Risk Management: A New Nightmare in the Boardroom 21. 'Safety Cultures' in British Stadia and Sporting Venues 22. The Human Side of the Banks: Credit Management of Small Firms – A Cognitive Approach to Corporate Evaluation 23. Management of Bank Loans to Small Firms in a Market with Asymmetric Information: An Integrated Concept 24. Prevention is Better Than Cure in Crisis Management: How to Turn a Crisis into an Opportunity 25. The Man-Made Machine Interface and its Impact on Shipping Safety 26. Organization and the Management of Safety Risks in the Chemical Process Industry 27. The Development of a Safety Culture 28. The Limits to Safety? Culture, Politics, Learning and Man-Made Disasters 29. Redefining the Issues of Risk and Public Acceptance. The Social Viability of Technology 30. The Schematic Report Analysis Diagram: A Simple Aid to Learning from Large-Scale Failures 31. Decision Making Under Contradictory Certainties: How to Save the Himalayas When You Can’t Find Out What’s Wrong With Them 32. Organizations and Systematic Distortion of Information 33. Safety Culture, Corporate Culture, Organizational Transformation and the Commitment to Safety 34. The Failure of Hindsight 35. Risk, Uncertainty and Nuclear Power 36. Crisis Management and Environmentalism: A Natural Fit Name Index