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Organization & Environment

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Book Review: William R. Freudenburg,Robert Gramling,Shirley Bradway Laska,and Kai Erikson Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow Washington,DC: Island Press,2009

Volume 23, Issue 3

https://doi.org/10.1177/1086026610381585

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