The cure for catastrophe : how we can stop manufacturing natural disasters / Robert Muir-Wood.
Title:
The cure for catastrophe : how we can stop manufacturing natural disasters
Author:
Muir-Wood, Robert
ISBN:
9780465060948
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Basic Books, a Member of the Perseus Books Group, [2016]
Physical Description:
356 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Trust in the walls -- Catastrophe year zero -- Catastrophysics -- The story of the three little pigs -- Risk made concrete -- Mr Heath's little black book -- The garden of the forking paths -- Intolerable risk -- The disaster forecast -- Save our souls -- The master of disaster -- Turning up the heat -- The remedies of Dr Resilience.
Summary:
"A global risk expert defends his assertion that disasters are manufactured by people building in the wrong places and in the wrong way and recounts the ways people have fought back against natural disasters, including the development of new predictive technologies,"--NoveList.
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The cure for catastrophe : how we can stop manufacturing natural disasters / Robert Muir-Wood.
