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Freudenburg ... [et al.] 205 $a1st ed. 2012. 210 $aWashington, D.C. $cIsland Press/Shearwater Books$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (222 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-61091-156-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aPrologue. The First Days of Katrina -- 1. A Mighty Storm Hits the Shore -- 2. The Setting -- 3. Slicing Through the Swamps -- 4. The Growth Machine Comes to New Orleans -- 5. A ?Helpful Explosion? -- 6. The Collapse of Engineered Systems -- 7. The Loss of Natural Defenses -- 8. Critical for Economic Survival? -- 9. The Axe in the Attic -- 10. The End of an Error? -- Endnotes -- References -- Acknowledgments -- Index. 330 $aWhen houses are flattened, towns submerged, and people stranded without electricity or even food, we attribute the suffering to ?natural disasters? or ?acts of God.? But what if they?re neither? What if we, as a society, are bringing these catastrophes on ourselves? 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