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

By William R. Freudenburg, Shirley Laska, Robert Gramling, et al.

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1610911636
• ISBN13: 9781610911634
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.7"