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Agave Library
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363.34 D495d
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Burton Barr Central Library
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363.34 D495d
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Summary:
A Canadian Science Writers Award-winning author presents an analysis of humanity's role in catastrophic natural disasters to consider whether or not such threats are increasing and how they can be managed.
Notes:
Originally published in Canada as Dangerous world by Viking Canada.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-341) and index.
Contents:
- Pt. 1: So what's the problem? Doomsday as a state of mind ; Catastrophe in human life : the probability theorem
- Pt. 2: Context. Our perilous neighborhood : understanding cosmology ; This plastic earth : plate tectonics and wandering continents ; Our ever-changing climate : ice ages now and then ; Fragile life : the conundrum of mass extinctions
- Pt. 3: Peril by peril. The perils without : comets and asteroids ; Earthquakes ; Volcanoes ; Poisonous emissions and noxious gases ; Tsunamis ; Floods ; Vile winds : tropical cyclones and tornadoes ; Plague and pandemic
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- Pt. 4: What is to be done? Making things worse : acts of God and acts of man ; Making things better (I): mitigating natural calamities ; Making things better (II): undoing human-made calamities
- Postscript: Can we do it? Will we?
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