Business of Disaster

Who profits when disaster strikes? FRONTLINE & NPR investigates how much insurance companies profit after a natural disaster. (Aired 2016) When Superstorm Sandy made landfall in October of 2012, the historic natural disaster killed more than 100 people and caused catastrophic damage along the...

53 min - Disasters & Survival - FRONTLINE PBS

Read Deeper: Disasters & Survival

  1. Fly by Wire by William Langewiesche - View on Amazon
  2. The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande (3.9/5) - View on Amazon
  3. Flying Blind by Peter Robison - View on Amazon
  4. Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed - View on Amazon
  5. Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham (4.7/5) - View on Amazon
  6. To Engineer Is Human by Henry Petroski (3.6/5) - View on Amazon
  7. Normal Accidents by Charles Perrow - View on Amazon
  8. Deep Down Dark by Héctor Tobar - View on Amazon
  9. Alive by Piers Paul Read (3.8/5) - View on Amazon
  10. Endurance by Alfred Lansing (4.6/5) - View on Amazon
  11. The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger (4.1/5) - View on Amazon
  12. Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson - View on Amazon
  13. Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink - View on Amazon
  14. The Great Deluge by Douglas Brinkley - View on Amazon
  15. Krakatoa by Simon Winchester (3.6/5) - View on Amazon
  16. A Crack in the Edge of the World by Simon Winchester - View on Amazon
  17. Pompeii by Mary Beard - View on Amazon
  18. Young Men and Fire by Norman Maclean - View on Amazon
  19. Fire Weather by John Vaillant - View on Amazon
  20. The Big Burn by Timothy Egan - View on Amazon
  21. Fire Season by Philip Connors - View on Amazon
  22. I survived the California wildfires, 2018 by Lauren Tarshis - View on Amazon
  23. Dynamics of structures by Anil K. Chopra - View on Amazon

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