Curbing Catastrophe: Natural Hazards and Risk Reduction in the Modern World by Timothy H. Dixon

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Curbing Catastrophe: Natural Hazards and Risk Reduction in the Modern World by Timothy H. DixonISBN: 9781107035188 Publisher : Cambridge University Press, April 7, 2017 Hardcover, 318 pages What does Japan's 2011 nuclear accident have in common with the 2005 flooding of New Orleans from Hurricane Katrina? What does global warming have to do with Black Hawk Down, Mark Bowden's classic account of a military disaster in Somalia? What is the relation between coal and tuna? This thought provoking book presents a compelling account of recent and

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