California earthquakes: science, risk, and the politics of hazard mitigation
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1. Verfasser: Geschwind, Carl-Henry (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press ©2001
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Beschreibung: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
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (x, 337 pages)
ISBN:0801873606
9780801873607

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