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The Cure for Catastrophe: How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters

by Robert Muir-Wood

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 homes and livelihoods, earthquakes tear communities apart, and tornadoes uproot whole towns. Natural disasters cause destruction and despair. But does it have to be this way?

Publisher

Basic Books

Publication date

2016

Format

Print edition

Pages

356

ISBN

9780465060948