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Catastrophe in the making : the engineering of Katrina and the disasters of tomorrow /
"On a sweltering August day in 2005, Hurricane Katrina blasted New Orleans, leaving behind devastation and chaos. Conventional wisdom tells us it was a tragic case of nature striking humans, but 'Catastrophe in the making' explains that the conventional wisdom is dangerously wrong. Ka...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
Island Press/Shearwater Books,
©2009.
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Catastrophe in the making : |b the engineering of Katrina and the disasters of tomorrow / |c William R. Freudenburg, Robert Gramling, Shirley Laska, Kai T. Erikson. |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t The first days of Katrina -- |t A mighty storm hits the shore -- |t The setting -- |t Slicing through the swamps -- |t The growth machine comes to New Orleans -- |t A "helpful explosion" -- |t The collapse of engineered systems -- |t The loss of natural defenses -- |t Critical for economic survival? -- |t The axe in the attic -- |t The end of an error? |
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