The end : natural disasters, manmade catastrophes, and the future of human survival / Marq de Villiers.
- De Villiers, Marq.
- Date:
- 2008
- Books
About this work
Description
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.
Publication/Creation
New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2008.
Physical description
vi, 362 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contributors
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Notes
Originally published in Canada as Dangerous world by Viking Canada.
Contents
pt. 1: So what's the problem? Doomsday as a state of mind ; Catastrophe in human life : the probability theorem -- pt. 2: Context. Our perilous neighborhood : understanding cosmology ; This plastic earth : plate tectonics and wandering continents ; Our ever-changing climate : ice ages now and then ; Fragile life : the conundrum of mass extinctions -- pt. 3: Peril by peril. The perils without : comets and asteroids ; Earthquakes ; Volcanoes ; Poisonous emissions and noxious gases ; Tsunamis ; Floods ; Vile winds : tropical cyclones and tornadoes ; Plague and pandemic -- pt. 4: What is to be done? Making things worse : acts of God and acts of man ; Making things better (I): mitigating natural calamities ; Making things better (II): undoing human-made calamities -- Postscript: Can we do it? Will we?
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 339-341) and index.
Languages
Where to find it
Location Status Medical CollectionGB5014 2008D48eOpen shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9780312365691
- 0312365691