California earthquakes : science, risk, and the politics of hazard mitigation / Carl-Henry Geschwind.
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TextPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2001.Description: 1 online resource (x, 337 pages) : mapContent type: - text
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- online resource
- 0801873606
- 9780801873607
- 9780801865961
- 0801865964
- Earthquake hazard analysis -- California -- History
- Earthquakes -- California -- Safety measures -- History
- Risques sismiques -- Californie -- Histoire
- Tremblements de terre -- Californie -- Sécurité -- Mesures -- Histoire
- NATURE -- Natural Disasters
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disasters & Disaster Relief
- Earthquake hazard analysis
- Earthquakes -- Safety measures
- California
- Aardbevingen
- Risicoanalyse
- Veiligheidsmaatregelen
- Californië
- 363.34/95/09794 21
- QE535.2.U6 G485 2001eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-316) and index.
Reactions to the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 -- Setting up a scientific infrastructure : seismology California style, 1910-1925 -- Bailey Willis and the promotion of earthquake safety in the mid-1920s -- Engineering a regulatory state apparatus : seismic safety in the 1930s -- Earthquake experts and the Cold War state -- New initiatives for earthquake preparedness, 1964-1971 -- Seismic politics: responses to the San Fernando earthquake -- Pushing prediction: the establishment of the national earthquake hazards reduction -- Program -- The regulatory state apparatus in action.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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