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Wood, Robert Muir.
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Natural disasters -- Planning.
Natural disasters -- Prevention.
Environmental risk assessment.
Hazardous geographic environments.
Hazard mitigation.
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Wood, Robert Muir.
Natural disasters -- Planning.
Natural disasters -- Prevention.
Environmental risk assessment.
Hazardous geographic environments.
Hazard mitigation.
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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.
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Adult Nonfiction
363.3407 W878c
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