California earthquakes science, risk, & the politics of hazard mitigation /
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| Médium: | Elektronický zdroj E-kniha |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Baltimore ; London :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2001.
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| On-line přístup: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Obsah:
- 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.