Calculating catastrophe / Gordon Woo.

London : Imperial College Press ; Singapore : Distributed by World scientific Publishing Co., [2011], ©2011.

xi, 355 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-346) and index.

Prologue: Chaos, Crisis and Catastrophe -- 1. Natural hazards -- 2. Societal hazards -- 3. A sense of scale -- 4. A measure of uncertainty -- 5. A matter of time -- 6. Catastrophe complexity -- 7. Terrorism -- 8. Forecasting -- 9. Disaster warning -- 10. Disaster scenarios -- 11. Catastrophe cover -- 12. Catastrophe risk securitization -- 13. Risk horizons -- Epilogue: Black and Red Swans.