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...
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Freudenburg, William R., Gramling, Robert, 1943-2014, Laska, Shirley Bradway, 1944-, Erikson, Kai, 1931-, SpringerLink (Online service) |
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eBook
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English
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Washington, DC :
Island Press/Shearwater Books,
©2009.
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1 online resource (209 pages) : illustrations, maps.
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