Bruneau, Michel, 1959-

The Blessings of Disaster : The Lessons That Catastrophes Teach Us and Why Our Future Depends on It / Michel Bruneau. - xiii, 444 pages : color photographs ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographies (pages 351-434) and index.

"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 collapse, and nuclear holocaust-can be predicted by observing how we currently cope with and react to natural and technological disasters"--

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Emergency management.
Disasters--Social aspects.
Preparedness.

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