Table of Contents
Dedication
Foreward to 2nd Edition
Personal Note
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapters
PART I: BEFORE THE STORM
- From One Disaster to Another: Superpower Vulnerability
- Cocoon We Live In: Our Built Environment
- Concentrating Risk: A Tale of Too Many Eggs
- Urbanization: The Urge to Concentrate
- Not the Oscars: Disaster Vulnerability Ratings
- Paradise Lost: The Road to Non-Resilience
- Urban Fires: Burning Our Fingers Repeatedly
- Risk Stimulus: US Flood Insurance Takes in Water
- Solution or Problem: Building Codes
- Choices We Should Make: What To Save and What Not
- Trojan Horse of Disasters: Affordability Abused
- A Disastrous Tug-of-War: The Battle for Resilience
PART II: THE STORM
- Weak and Cheap: The Business of Non-Resilience
- When Disaster Strikes: Knock on Wood
- World’s Wood Powerhouse: Canada Cries Timber
- False Sense of Security: A Culture for Disaster
- Off the Rocky Road: Making Cars Resilient
- Pioneer Who Saw the Light: Story of John Freeman
- Predicting the Unpredictable: Limits of Sharing Our Problems
- Investing or Gambling: Brief History of Insurance
- Color Blind: Fifty Shades of Green
- Built Environment Makeover: From Repetition to Resilience
- Gone With the Wind: Disaster Reruns
- Ground We Shake On: Pro-action Over Inaction
PART III: AFTER THE STORM
- Liquid Rock: Harnessing Nature’s Strength
- Acts of God or Man: Enforcing Accountability
- Collateral Damage: When Government and Resilience Collide
- Private Action: Balancing Principles With Profit
- Disaster Cures: Lessons For Resilient Living
Epilogue
References
Abbreviations
Resilience Action Fund
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