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Designing Resilience: Preparing for Extreme Events - Comfort, Louise (Editor), and Boin, Arjen (Editor), and Demchak, Chris (Editor)
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Designing Resilience presents case studies of extreme events and analyzes the ability of affected individuals, institutions, governments, and technological systems to cope with disaster. Individual case studies, including Hurricane Katrina in the United States, the London bombings, and French preparedness for the Avian flu, are analyzed to determine effective and ineffective strategies.

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Designing Resilience: Preparing for Extreme Events 2010, University of Pittsburgh Press, PIttsburgh

ISBN-13: 9780822960614

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