Over the Seawall
Miller, Stephen Robert In March 2011, people in a coastal Japanese city stood atop a seawall watching the approach of the tsunami that would kill them. They believed--naively--that the huge concrete barrier would save them. Instead, they perished, betrayed by the very thing built to protect them. Academics call it maladaptation, in simple terms, it's about solutions that backfire. Over the Seawall tells the stories behind these unintended consequences and the fixes ...