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Curbing catastrophe : natural hazards and risk reduction in the modern world /
An eye-opening account exploring common themes between major disasters and providing important lessons for successful natural hazard mitigation.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 520 | |a An eye-opening account exploring common themes between major disasters and providing important lessons for successful natural hazard mitigation. | ||
| 505 | 8 | |a Machine generated contents note: Preface; 1. Black and white swans, evolution, and markets; 2. What is a natural disaster? Where do they occur, and why? Are they different from human-made disasters?; 3. If we know so much about natural disasters, why are we so vulnerable?; 4. Japanese earthquakes and nuclear power plant failures; 5. Future earthquake disasters in Seattle and Istanbul; 6. Nuclear power, coal, and tuna: the concept of relative risk; 7. Past and future coastal flooding: Galveston, New Orleans, Bangladesh, and the specter of sea level rise; 8. What's all the fuss about global warming?; 9. Solutions; References and further reading; Index; Online appendices: Appendix 1. Additional background material and exercises for students; Appendix 2. Colour figures. | |
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