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Charles Perrow

Perrow is an emeritus professor of sociology at Yale University, and a visiting professor at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. An organizational theorist, he is the author of six books including The Next Catastrophe (Princeton, 2011) and the award-winning Normal Accidents: Living with High Risk Technologies (Princeton, 1999). His current research focuses on the institutional and organizational aspects of global warming.