Bibliograph

The cure for catastrophe, how we can stop manufacturing natural disasters, Robert Muir-Wood

Type

Label

The cure for catastrophe, how we can stop manufacturing natural disasters, Robert Muir-Wood

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The cure for catastrophe

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

941875561

Responsibility statement

Robert Muir-Wood

Sub title

how we can stop manufacturing natural disasters

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, "--NoveList

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

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