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The cure for catastrophe : how we can stop manufacturing natural disasters

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Summary
In The Cure for Catastrophe, global risk expert Robert Muir-Wood argues that our natural disasters are in fact human ones: We build in the wrong places and in the wrong way, putting brick buildings in earthquake country, timber ones in fire zones,... Read more
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 ... Read more
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Description
vii, 356 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Publisher
Basic Books, a Member of the Perseus Books Group 2016

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Woodmere (Main Branch) 363 MUI in Adult Non-fiction Available

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