Unraveling Environmental Disasters

Unraveling Environmental Disasters provides scientific explanations of the most threatening current and future environmental disasters, including an analysis of ways that the disaster could have been prevented and how the risk of similar disasters can be minimized in the future.

• Named a 2014 Outstanding Academic Title by the American Library Association's Choice publication
• Treats disasters as complex systems
• Provides predictions based upon sound science, such as what the buildup of certain radiant gases in the troposphere will do, or what will happen if current transoceanic crude oil transport continues
• Considers the impact of human systems on environmental disasters

Contenu

1. Failures 2. Science 3. Explosions 4. Plumes 5. Leaks 6. Spills 7. Fires 8. Climate 9. Nature 10. Minerals 11. Recalcitrance 12. Radiation 13. Invasions 14. Products 15. Unsustainability 16. Society 17. Future Glossary of Terms