The cure for catastrophe : how we can stop manufacturing natural disasters / Robert Muir-Wood.
"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, and coastal cities in the paths of hurricanes....
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | New York : Basic Books, a Member of the Perseus Books Group, [2016] ©2016. |
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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.