@article{529427,
      author = {Vallero, Daniel A. and Letcher, T. M.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/529427},
      title = {Unraveling environmental disasters /},
      publisher = {Elsevier,},
      abstract = {"Unraveling Environmental Disasters covers the major  environmental threats facing our world, focusing on  rigorous scientific investigations to better understand why  the disasters occurred. Two prominent scientists, physical  chemist Trevor Letcher and environmental engineer Daniel  Vallero, look at natural and human-induced disasters to  analyze ways that they could have been prevented and offer  predictions on possible future disasters based upon  scientific evidence. This book: Considers the societal  impact on environmental disasters; Describes concisely why  these disasters occurred, with understandable explanations  of the underlying scientific principles; Applies 'failure  analysis' to recent environmental catastrophes, such as the  Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico; Explains  how to minimize the risk of potential disasters similar to  those of the past."--p. [4] of cover.},
      recid = {529427},
      pages = {xi, 500 p. :},
      address = {Boston :},
      year = {2013},
}