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Book review: Over the seawall: tsunamis, cyclones, drought, and the delusion of controlling nature

Review (2024)
Author(s)

J. Verschuur (TU Delft - Transport and Logistics)

Research Group
Transport and Logistics
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-2705-2024
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Publication Year
2024
Language
English
Research Group
Transport and Logistics
Issue number
8
Volume number
24
Pages (from-to)
2705–2706
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Abstract

Are our efforts to protect society from the adverse impacts of nature doing more harm than good? This is the main question that Stephen Robert Miller poses in his inaugural book Over the Seawall: Tsunamis, Cyclones, Drought, and the Delusion of Controlling Nature.