California earthquakes science, risk, & the politics of hazard mitigation /

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Main Author: Geschwind, Carl-Henry, 1965-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.
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245 1 0 |a California earthquakes  |h [electronic resource] :  |b science, risk, & the politics of hazard mitigation /  |c Carl-Henry Geschwind. 
260 |a Baltimore ;  |a London :  |b Johns Hopkins University Press,  |c 2001. 
300 |a xi, 348 p. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-316) and index. 
505 0 |a 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 of 1971 -- Pushing prediction : establishment of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program -- The regulatory-state apparatus in action. 
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650 0 |a Earthquakes  |z California  |x Safety measures  |x History. 
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