The cure for catastrophe : how we can stop manufacturing natural disasters / Robert Muir-Wood.
The cure for catastrophe : how we can stop manufacturing natural disasters / Robert Muir-Wood.
The cure for catastrophe : how we can stop manufacturing natural disasters / Robert Muir-Wood.
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Publisher
New York : Basic Books, a Member of the Perseus Books Group, [2016]
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G 2016/2701
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Language
English
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Physical content
356 pages ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Trust in the walls -- Catastrophe year zero -- Catastrophysics -- The story of 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 hea...
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Publisher
New York : Basic Books, a Member of the Perseus Books Group, [2016]
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2016]
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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.
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The cure for catastrophe : how we can stop manufacturing natural disasters / Robert Muir-Wood.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online version: Muir-Wood, Robert, author. Cure for catastrophe New York : Basic Books, a Member of the Perseus Books Group, [2016] 9780465096473 (DLC) 2016016150
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G 2016/2701
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74VKVq3jwKRZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVq3jwKRZ
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ISBN
0465060943 (hardcover)
9780465060948 (hardcover)
DDC
363.3407
MMS ID
991024007589602626
