The Cure for Catastrophe

Book Details:

• Author: Robert Muir-Wood
• Date: 06 Sep 2016
• Publisher: INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
• Original Languages: English
• Format: Hardback::368 pages
• ISBN10: 0465060943
• Publication City/Country: New York, United States
• Imprint: BASIC BOOKS
• File size: 23 Mb
• Filename: the-cure-for-catastrophe.pdf
• Dimension: 165x 244x 32mm::608g
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Tsunamis. Earthquakes. Volcanoes. These are the sorts of natural disasters movies are made from, because throughout history we've learned Does this cognizance undermine Robert Muir-Wood's The Cure for Catastrophe: How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters? We may On August 24, 2016 just a few weeks ago an earthquake hit a remote area of the Apennine mountains of central Italy in the middle of the 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. We can't stop natural disasters but we can stop them being disastrous. One of the world's foremost risk experts tells us how.Year after year, floods wreck people's A fascinating examination of the "forensics of disasters.

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