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The cure for catastrophe : how we can stop manufacturing natural disasters / Robert Muir-Wood.
"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
Record details
- ISBN: 9780465060948
- ISBN: 0465060943
- Physical Description: vii, 356 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : Basic Books, a Member of the Perseus Books Group, [2016]
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-344) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Fulton Co PL - Rochester Main Library | 363.34 MUI (Text) | 33187004117806 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
| West Lafayette PL - West Lafayette | 363.3407 MUI (Text) | 31951004133721 | 2nd Floor - Non-Fiction | Available | - |
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