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BL
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| Record Number
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692888
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b515077
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| Main Entry
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Woo, G.
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| Title & Author
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Calculating catastrophe /\ Gordon Woo
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| Publication Statement
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London :: Imperial College Press ;Singapore :: Distributed by World scientific Publishing Co.,, c2011
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| Page. NO
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xi, 355 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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1848167385
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: 1848167393
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: 9781848167384
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: 9781848167391
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-346) and index
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| Contents
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Prologue: Chaos, Crisis and Catastrophe -- 1. Natural hazards -- 2. Societal hazards -- 3. A sense of scale -- 4. A measure of uncertainty -- 5. A matter of time -- 6. Catastrophe complexity -- 7. Terrorism -- 8. Forecasting -- 9. Disaster warning -- 10. Disaster scenarios -- 11. Catastrophe cover -- 12. Catastrophe risk securitization -- 13. Risk horizons -- Epilogue: Black and Red Swans
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| Subject
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Emergency management-- Mathemical models
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Natural disasters-- Mathematical models
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| Dewey Classification
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363.34
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| LC Classification
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GB5014.W65 2011
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