Name: Megadisasters: The Science of Predicting the Next Catastrophe (en Inglés)
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Author: Florin Diacu
ISBN: 9780691133508

portada Megadisasters: The Science of Predicting the Next Catastrophe (en Inglés)

Megadisasters: The Science of Predicting the Next Catastrophe (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Princeton University Press

Autor

Florin Diacu

Año

2009

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

240

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN

0691133506

ISBN13

9780691133508

N° edición

Categorías

Desastres naturales

Megadisasters: The Science of Predicting the Next Catastrophe (en Inglés)

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Reseña del libro "Megadisasters: The Science of Predicting the Next Catastrophe (en Inglés)"

Can we predict cataclysmic disasters such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, or stock market crashes? The Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 claimed more than 200,000 lives. Hurricane Katrina killed over 1,800 people and devastated the city of New Orleans. The recent global financial crisis has cost corporations and ordinary people around the world billions of dollars. "Megadisasters" is a book that asks why catastrophes such as these catch us by surprise, and reveals the history and groundbreaking science behind efforts to forecast major disasters and minimize their destruction. Each chapter of this exciting and eye-opening book explores a particular type of cataclysmic event and the research surrounding it, including earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, hurricanes, rapid climate change, collisions with asteroids or comets, pandemics, and financial crashes. Florin Diacu tells the harrowing true stories of people impacted by these terrible events, and of the scientists racing against time to predict when the next big disaster will strike. He describes the mathematical models that are so critical to understanding the laws of nature and foretelling potentially lethal phenomena, the history of modeling and its prospects for success in the future, and the enormous challenges to scientific prediction posed by the chaos phenomenon, which is the high instability that underlies many processes around us. Yielding new insights into the perils that can touch every one of us, "Megadisasters" shows how the science of predicting disasters holds the promise of a safer and brighter tomorrow.