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

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Baltimore ; London : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001.Description: xi, 348 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 363.34/95/09794 21
LOC classification:
  • QE535.2.U6 G485 2001eb
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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 of 1971 -- Pushing prediction : establishment of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program -- The regulatory-state apparatus in action.
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E-Book Taylor's Library-TU 363.34/95/09794 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) e-book

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 of 1971 -- Pushing prediction : establishment of the National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program -- The regulatory-state apparatus in action.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2005. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.