TY - BOOK N2 - "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. AB - "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. T1 - Catastrophe in the making :the engineering of Katrina and the disasters of tomorrow / DA - c2009. CY - Washington, DC : AU - Freudenburg, William R. AU - Gramling, Robert, AU - Laska, Shirley Bradway, AU - Erikson, Kai, CN - HV636 2005.N4 CN - HV636 2005.N4 PB - Island Press/Shearwater Books, PP - Washington, DC : PY - c2009. ID - 342762 KW - Hurricane Katrina, 2005. KW - Hurricane protection KW - Flood control KW - Levees KW - Levees KW - Emergency management KW - Economic development SN - 9781597266826 (alk. paper) SN - 1597266825 (alk. paper) TI - Catastrophe in the making :the engineering of Katrina and the disasters of tomorrow / ER -