An edition of The cure for catastrophe (2016)

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how we can stop manufacturing natural disasters

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An edition of The cure for catastrophe (2016)

The cure for catastrophe

how we can stop manufacturing natural disasters

  • 1 Want to read

"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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Publisher
Basic Books
Language
English
Pages
356

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Book Details


Table of Contents

Trust in the walls
Catastrophe year zero
Catastrophysics
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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-344) and index.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
363.34/07
Library of Congress
GB5014 .M85 2016, GB5014.M85 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
vii, 356 pages
Number of pages
356

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL27215861M
ISBN 10
0465060943
ISBN 13
9780465060948
LCCN
2016004281
OCLC/WorldCat
941875561

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL20035820W

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