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The cure for catastrophe : how we can stop manufacturing natural disasters / Robert Muir-Wood. by Wood, Robert Muir. Basic Books, a Member of the Perseus Books Group, [2016] Call #: 363.3407 W878c Subjects Natural disasters -- Planning.   Natural disasters -- Prevention.   Environmental risk assessment.   Hazardous geographic environments.   Hazard mitigation. ISBN:  9780465060948 (hc.) Description:  vii, 356 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. 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. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 363.3407 W878c Core Collection - Adult Transit Add Copy to MyList

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