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03994aam a22004578i 4500 001 829414CCFF1611E695AA88B7DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170302010256 008 160621s2016 nyuab b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2016018946 020 $a 1620970139 (pbk.) 020 $a 9781620970133 (pbk.) 020 $a 1620970120 020 $a 9781620970126 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d YDXCP $d BDX $d OCLCO $d ON8 $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d JQW $d UOK $d VP@ $d FM0 $d LTSCA $d UIN $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a GB5014 $b .C69 2016 082 00 $a 363.34 $2 23 084 $a NAT010000 $a NAT010000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Cox, Stan, $e author. 245 10 $a How the world breaks : $b life in catastrophe's path, from the Caribbean to Siberia / $c Stan Cox and Paul Cox. 264 1 $a New York : $b The New Press, $c 2016. 300 $a 399 pages : $b illustrations, maps ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Fire regimes: Australia and Siberia -- Leave it up to Batman: the Philippines -- Neighbors to the sky: New York City -- Every silver lining ... -- Gray goo: East Java, Indonesia -- How to booby-trap a planet -- Foreshock, shock, aftershock: L'Aquila, Italy -- Atlantis of the Americas: Miami, Florida -- Engineer, defend, insure, absorb, leave -- The absorbers: Mumbai, India, and Kampala, Uganda -- Vulnerability seeps in everywhere -- Keeping the lights on: Montserrat, West Indies -- "We do things big here": Greensburg, Kansas, and Joplin, Missouri -- When mountains fall: Uttarakhand State, India -- Epilogue: Rainbow of chaos. 520 $a "We've always lived on a dangerous planet, but its disasters aren't what they used to be. How the World Breaks gives us a breathtaking new view of crisis and recovery on the unstable landscapes of the Earth's hazard zones. Father and son authors Stan and Paul Cox take us to the explosive fire fronts of overheated Australia, the future lost city of Miami, the fights over whether and how to fortify New York City in the wake of Sandy, the Indonesian mud volcano triggered by natural gas drilling, and other communities that are reimagining their lives after quakes, superstorms, tornadoes, and landslides. In the very decade when we should be rushing to heal the atmosphere and address the enormous inequalities of risk, a strange idea has taken hold of global disaster policy: resilience. Its proponents say that threatened communities must simply learn the art of resilience, adapt to risk, and thereby survive. This doctrine obscures the human hand in creating disasters and requires the planet's most beleaguered people to absorb the rush of floodwaters and the crush of landslides, freeing the world economy to go on undisturbed. The Coxes' great contribution is to pull the disaster debate out of the realm of theory and into the muck and ash of the world's broken places. There we learn that change is more than mere adaptation and life is more than mere survival. Ultimately, How the World Breaks reveals why--unless we address the social, ecological, and economic roots of disaster--millions more people every year will find themselves spiraling into misery. It is essential reading for our time"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Natural disasters $x Social aspects. 650 0 $a Human beings $x Effect of environment on. 650 0 $a Resilience (Personality trait) 650 7 $a SCIENCE $x Environmental Science. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a NATURE $x Ecology. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Human beings $x Effect of environment on. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00962843 650 7 $a Natural disasters $x Social aspects. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01034021 650 7 $a Resilience (Personality trait) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01095573 700 1 $a Cox, Paul, $e author. 941 $a 3 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210707011012.0 952 $l CEAX572 $d 20200508022027.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20170302014811.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=829414CCFF1611E695AA88B7DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search