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"--