Designing resilience : preparing for extreme events
Designing Resilience presents case studies of extreme events and analyzes the ability of affected individuals, institutions, governments, and technological systems to cope with disaster. Individual case studies, including Hurricane Katrina in the United States, the London bombings, and French preparedness for the Avian flu, are analyzed to determine effective and ineffective strategies.-- Publisher description
Print Book, English, ©2010
University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, Pa., ©2010