California earthquakes : science, risk & the politics of hazard mitigation
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California earthquakes : science, risk & the politics of hazard mitigation
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001
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California earthquakes : science, risk, and the politics of hazard mitigation
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  Iwate
  Miyagi
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  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
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  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
In 1906, after an earthquake wiped out much of San Francisco, leading California officials and scientists described the disaster as a one-time occurrence and assured the public that it had nothing to worry about. California Earthquakes explains how, over time, this attitude changed, and Californians came to accept earthquakes as a significant threat, as well as to understand how science and technology could reduce this threat. Carl-Henry Geschwind tells the story of the small group of scientists and engineers who-in tension with real estate speculators and other pro-growth forces, private and public-developed the scientific and political infrastructure necessary to implement greater earthquake awareness. Through their political connections, these reformers succeeded in building a state apparatus in which regulators could work together with scientists and engineers to reduce earthquake hazards. Geschwind details the conflicts among scientists and engineers about how best to reduce these risks, and he outlines the dramatic twentieth-century advances in our understanding of earthquakes-their causes and how we can try to prepare for them.
Tracing the history of seismology and the rise of the regulatory state and of environmental awareness, California Earthquakes tells how earthquake-hazard management came about, why some groups assisted and others fought it, and how scientists and engineers helped shape it.
Table of Contents
Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Reactions to the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire of 1906 Chapter 2: Setting Up a Scientific Infrastructure - Seismology California Style, 1910-1925 Chapter 3: Bailey Willis and the Promotion of Earthquake Safety in the Mid-1920s Chapter 4: Engineering a Regulatory-State Apparatus - Seismic Safety in the 1930s Chapter 5: Earthquake Experts and the Cold War State Chapter 6: New Initiatives for Earthquake Preparedness, 1964-1971 Chapter 7: Seismic Politics - Responses to the San Fernando Earthquake of 1971 Chapter 8: Pushing Prediction - Establishment of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program Chapter 9: The Regulatory-State Apparatus in Action Abbreviations Notes Essay on Sources Index
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