@article{342762,
      author = {Freudenburg, William R. and Gramling, Robert, and Laska,  Shirley Bradway, and Erikson, Kai,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/342762},
      title = {Catastrophe in the making : the engineering of Katrina and  the disasters of tomorrow /},
      publisher = {Island Press/Shearwater Books,},
      abstract = {"On a sweltering August day in 2005, Hurricane Katrina  blasted New Orleans, leaving behind devastation and chaos.  Conventional wisdom tells us it was a tragic case of nature  striking humans, but 'Catastrophe in the making' explains  that the conventional wisdom is dangerously wrong. Katrina  was instead a tragic case of humans striking nature, and  paying dearly for it. Worse, we continue to make the same  mistakes all across the country, courting costly and lethal  disasters" -- inside cover.},
      recid = {342762},
      pages = {209 p. :},
      address = {Washington, DC :},
      year = {2009},
}