What to read to understand the biggest natural disasters
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What to read to understand the biggest natural disasters

The Economist  

T HE WORD disaster derives from the Italian dis and astro, which together mean ill-starred. As Andy Horowitz, a historian whose book appears on this list, has written, disasters prompt questions of whom to save, what to leave behind and who decides. Speaking to The Economist a Turkish urban planner called the catastrophe the “perfect crime”. In theory, disasters offer a chance to fix the practices that led to harm, “to live and act another way”, in the words of Rebecca Solnit, a writer. These six books examine natural disasters’ impact on society and politics, as well as their human toll.

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