Ethical issues in Technological disaster: A systematic review of literature Introduction: Industrialization could bring risk of Technological Disaster (TD) such as happened in Chernobyl, Bhopal and Fukushima crisis. little has been discussed about its related ethical issues. In this study, we aimed to investigate ethical issues have been stated for technological disasters. Material and Methods:...

This study intends to understand how disaster is related to countries’ production efficiency using a sample of 137 countries over 1980–2011. We analyze the effect of the number of man-made and natural disaster occurrences on countries’ technological change (swift of the frontier) and technological catch-up (distribution of efficiencies). The results reveal an inverted “U” shape relationship bet...

Financial support from the program " Risques collectifs et situations de crise " of CNRS is gratefully acknowledged. In 1979 a partial melt-down of the reactor core at Three Mile Island was the worst nuclear power accident to that time. massive radiation overdoses during treatment using the Therac-25 machine. In the summer of 1991, ten million subscribers in the United States lost telephone ser...

The question of whether the Challenger disaster constitutes a normal accident as defined by Perrow (Perrow, 1999) hinges on how one chooses to define the system in question. If we restrict our definition of the system so that it consists only of the technological components involved (e.g., Solid Rocket Motor, Orbiter Main Engines, Orbital Maneuvering System), then the Challenger disaster was no...

Sleepers awake! The Y2K Problem may or may not be a technological disaster. But either way, the aftermath of the technological problems will be legal problems. Litigation over who should have done what will include damage claims for failures of software and liability for failure to prepare. The legal problems will be a disaster costing potentially trillions of dollars. Once the frenzy of litiga...

In response to the lessons and criticisms over the recent large-scale disasters and relief activities during the disasters, many government organizations around the world have recently launched initiatives to improve their disaster management capabilities. While a revision of disaster management capability may entail transformation of organizational structures, business processes, and technical...

Information delivery and sharing are vital for survival during and following a disaster. Information and communication technology (ICT) is supposed to support these processes effectively. To promote information delivery and sharing, the primary actors in charge of conducting a disaster relief operation at all levels of government have invested in developing a supposedly disaster-proof communica...