Book review: Over the seawall: tsunamis, cyclones, drought, and the delusion of controlling nature
Review
(2024)
Author(s)
Jasper Verschuur (TU Delft - Transport and Logistics)
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-24-2705-2024
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Publication Year
2024
Language
English
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.
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