The cure for catastrophe
Subtitle: how we can stop manufacturing natural disasters
By: Robert Muir-Wood
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780465060948
Subjects: Environmental risk assessment; Hazard mitigation; Natural disasters; Hazardous geographic environments; Planning; Prevention
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-344) and index.
Table of contents: title: Trust in the walls; title: Catastrophe year zero; title: Catastrophysics; title: The three little pigs; title: Risk made concrete; title: Mr Heath's little black book; title: The garden of the forking paths; title: Intolerable risk; title: The disaster forecast; title: Save our souls; title: The master of disaster; title: Turning up the heat; title: The remedies of Dr Resilience.