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Future Proof: How to build resilience in an uncertain world by Jon Coaffee

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January–February 2020, no. 418

Future Proof: How to build resilience in an uncertain world by Jon Coaffee

Yale University Press (Footprint), $49.99 hb, 288 pp, 9780300228670

Future Proof: How to build resilience in an uncertain world by Jon Coaffee

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January–February 2020, no. 418

In Future Proof, Jon Coaffee, professor in urban geography at the University of Warwick, asks readers to imagine ‘a typical day’: radio reports of an impending cyclone; public-transport posters encouraging the reporting of ‘suspicious activity’; the path to an office (especially in a CBD) protected by hostile-vehicle-mitigation bollards. At work, computer systems will be tested for security from cyber attacks. The train home will be delayed due to a network complication, and the evening’s television will show the cyclone’s impact, discussing the relative ineffectiveness of hazard mitigation.

Tom Bamforth reviews 'Future Proof: How to build resilience in an uncertain world' by Jon Coaffee

Future Proof: How to build resilience in an uncertain world

by Jon Coaffee

Yale University Press (Footprint), $49.99 hb, 288 pp, 9780300228670

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