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Playing against Nature: Integrating Science and Economics to Mitigate Natural Hazards in an Uncertain World
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Playing against Nature: Integrating Science and Economics to Mitigate Natural Hazards in an Uncertain World

by Jerome Jerome Stein Stein, Seth Seth Stein Stein
May 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
278 pages
8h 26m
English
American Geophysical Union
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Acknowledgments

Although science is always a human endeavor, this book is especially so because of its father–son collaboration. It would not have been completed, given my father's illness, without the support of Hadassah and Carol Stein. Their encouragement when the task seemed too big and progress slowed is even more impressive given that both went through it all for our previous books.

This book grew from ideas developed over many years via research carried out with coworkers, fruitful discussions with them and other researchers studying these or related problems, and knowledge from the broad communities of geoscientists, economists, and others interested in natural hazards. In that spirit, I would like to thank many people. All should feel ...

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