Catastrophe in the making : the engineering of Katrina and the disasters of tomorrow / William R. Freudenburg [and others].

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"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 inste...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Freudenburg, William R.
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Island Press/Shearwater Books, [2009], ©2009.
Subjects:
Hurricane Katrina, 2005.
Hurricane protection > Louisiana > Evaluation.
Flood control > Louisiana > New Orleans > Evaluation.
Levees > Louisiana > New Orleans > History.
Levees > Mississippi River.
Emergency management > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Economic development > Environmental aspects > Louisiana > New Orleans.
Physical Description:209 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book

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