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California earthquakes [electronic resource] : science, risk, and the politics of hazard mitigation / Carl-Henry Geschwind.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2001.Description: x, 337 p. : map ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0801873606 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 363.34/95/09794 21
LOC classification:
  • QE535.2.U6 G485 2001eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.

Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2003. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries. Excludes some or all of the images which were part of the original book.

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