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Over the Seawall
Tsunamis, Cyclones, Drought, and the Delusion of Controlling Nature
Failed technological marvels! Mans greed, pride, and hubris! Join our journalistic hero on an exciting journey through humanitys doomed attempts to leash Mother Nature!

In March 2011, people in a coastal Japanese city stood atop a seawall watching the approach of the tsunami that would kill them. They ......
ISBN-13: 9781642832563 (Hardback)
Publisher: ISLAND PRESS
Imprint: ISLAND PRESS
Stephen Robert Miller
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Local release date: 01/02/2024
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Categories: Conservation of the environment [RNK]Natural disasters [RNR]Environmental science, engineering & technology [TQ]

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Resilience and Opportunity
Lessons from the U.S. Gulf Coast After Katrina and Rita
Hurricanes Katrina and Rita devastated the Gulf Coast in 2005. Commentary and analysis typically focused on what went wrong in the post-disaster emergency response.
ISBN-13: 9780815721499 (Paperback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
Amy Liu, Roland V. Anglin, Richard M. Mizelle Jr., Allison Plyer
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Local release date: 18/08/2011
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Categories: Social impact of disasters [JFFC]Natural disasters [RNR]Regional & area planning [RP]

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The Blessings of Disaster
The Lessons That Catastrophes Teach Us and Why Our Future Depends on It
Are we doomed? As individuals, certainly, eventually, inevitably. But as a species? As a civilization? Leading catastrophe engineer Michel Bruneau thinks perhaps not. The Blessings of Disaster draws on knowledge from multiple disciplines to illustrate how our civilization's future successes and failures in dealing with societal threats-be they ......
ISBN-13: 9781633888234 (Hardback)
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: PROMETHEUS
Michel Bruneau
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Local release date: 08/02/2023
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Categories: Natural disasters [RNR]

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The Environment As Hazard, Second Edition
The Environment as Hazard offers an understanding of how people around the world deal with dramatic fluctuations in the local natural systems of air, water, and terrain. Reviewing recent theoretical and methodological changes in the investigation of natural hazards, the authors describe how research findings are being incorporated into public ......
ISBN-13: 9780898621594 (Paperback)
Publisher: GUILFORD PUBLICATIONS
Imprint: THE GUILFORD PRESS
Ian Burton, Robert W. Kates, Gilbert F. White
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Local release date: 30/07/1993
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Categories: Sociology [JHB]Natural disasters [RNR]Environmental science, engineering & technology [TQ]

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