[Free pdf] Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow
☆ William R. Freudenburg, Robert B. Gramling, Shirley Laska, Kai Erikson ☆
| #1055947 in Books | 2011-08-08 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.60 x6.00l,.70 | File Name: 1610911636 | 224 pages
||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| Finally, a book that helps us understand what hit New Orleans -- and why!|By Big Max|There must be a couple dozen books out there with "Katrina" in their titles, but almost all of them have focused on how awful things were and/or on how mother Nature attacked New Orleans. This is the first book to put the disaster in a broader context. It argues that Hurricane Katrina wasn't||
"This brilliant work demonstrates once again that most 'natural' disasters are in fact man-made, and therefore preventable and correctable. Bravo!"
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 Catastrophe in the Making, the first book to recognize Hurricane Katrina not as a “perfect storm,” but a t... [PDF.jy93] Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow Rating: 3.84 (787 Votes)
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