The Blessings of Disaster: The Lessons That Catastrophes Teach Us and Why Our Future Depends on It - Hardcover
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The Blessings of Disaster: The Lessons That Catastrophes Teach Us and Why Our Future Depends on It
Are we doomed? As individuals, certainly, eventually, inevitably. But as a species? As a civilization? Leading catastrophe engineer Michel Bruneau thinks perhaps not. The Blessings of Disaster draws on knowledge from multiple disciplines to illustrate how our civilization's future successes and failures in dealing with societal threats--be they pandemics, climate change, overpopulation, monetary...
Michel Bruneau is a SUNY Distinguished Professor at the University at Buffalo, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineers and of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and - most significantly - Emeritus Director of a National Science Foundation's national engineering research center focused on preventing disasters from extreme events. He has worked for more than three decades as part of...
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