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