Table of Contents

Dedication

Foreward to 2nd Edition

Personal Note

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapters

PART I: BEFORE THE STORM

1. From One Disaster to Another: Superpower Vulnerability

2. Cocoon We Live In: Our Built Environment

3. Concentrating Risk: A Tale of Too Many Eggs

4. Urbanization: The Urge to Concentrate

5. Not the Oscars: Disaster Vulnerability Ratings

6. Paradise Lost: The Road to Non-Resilience

7. Urban Fires: Burning Our Fingers Repeatedly

8. Risk Stimulus: US Flood Insurance Takes in Water

9. Solution or Problem: Building Codes

10. Choices We Should Make: What To Save and What Not

11. Trojan Horse of Disasters: Affordability Abused

12. A Disastrous Tug-of-War: The Battle for Resilience

PART II: THE STORM

13. Weak and Cheap: The Business of Non-Resilience

14. When Disaster Strikes: Knock on Wood

15. World’s Wood Powerhouse: Canada Cries Timber

16. False Sense of Security: A Culture for Disaster

17. Off the Rocky Road: Making Cars Resilient

18. Pioneer Who Saw the Light: Story of John Freeman

19. Predicting the Unpredictable: Limits of Sharing Our Problems

20. Investing or Gambling: Brief History of Insurance

21. Color Blind: Fifty Shades of Green

22. Built Environment Makeover: From Repetition to Resilience

23. Gone With the Wind: Disaster Reruns

24. Ground We Shake On: Pro-action Over Inaction

PART III: AFTER THE STORM

25. Liquid Rock: Harnessing Nature’s Strength

26. Acts of God or Man: Enforcing Accountability

27. Collateral Damage: When Government and Resilience Collide

28. Private Action: Balancing Principles With Profit

29. Disaster Cures: Lessons For Resilient Living

Epilogue

References

Abbreviations

Resilience Action Fund

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