The cure for catastrophe : how we can stop manufacturing natural disasters /

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Author / Creator:Wood, Robert Muir, author.
Imprint:New York : Basic Books, [2016]
Description:vii, 356 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language:English
Subject:Natural disasters -- Planning.
Natural disasters -- Prevention.
Environmental risk assessment.
Hazardous geographic environments.
Hazard mitigation.
Environmental risk assessment.
Hazard mitigation.
Hazardous geographic environments.
Natural disasters -- Planning.
Natural disasters -- Prevention.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10878216
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ISBN:9780465060948
0465060943
9780465096473
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Other form:Online version: Muir-Wood, Robert, author. Cure for catastrophe New York : Basic Books, a Member of the Perseus Books Group, [2016] 9780465096473