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

• Main Authors: Freudenburg, William R. (Author), Gramling, Robert (Author), Laska, Shirley (Author), Erikson, Kai T. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Center for Resource Economics : Imprint: Island Press, 2012.
• Subjects: 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...