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natural disasters, manmade catastrophes, and the future of human survival

By Villiers, Marq de & De Villiers, Marq

Publishers 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

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ISBN
978-0-31236-569-1
Publisher
New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2008


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Library Journal

Reviewed on January 15, 2009

Unlike most books on natural disasters, this title, originally published in Canada as Dangerous World, focuses on disasters' human aspects. Award-winning science writer de Villiers (Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource; Sahara: The Extraordinary History of the World's Largest Desert) distinguishes between real natural disasters and those caused or worsened by human...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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