Catastrophe in the Making The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow /

• Κύριοι συγγραφείς: Freudenburg, William R. (Συγγραφέας), Gramling, Robert (Συγγραφέας), Laska, Shirley (Συγγραφέας), Erikson, Kai T. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2012.
• Θέματα: Environment.; Political science.; Natural disasters.; Architecture.; Environmental management.; Environmental economics.; Environmental Management.; Cities, Countries, Regions.; Political Science.; Environmental Economics.; Natural Hazards.

When houses are flattened, towns submerged, and people stranded without electricity or even food, we attribute the suffering to “natural disasters” or “acts of God.” But what if they’re neither? What if we, as a society, are bringing these catastrophes on ourselves? That’s the provocative theory of...