Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Disaster relief
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Governmental Response to the California Earthquake Disaster of February 1971
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Disaster relief
Languages : en
Pages : 1000
Book Description
Governmental Response to the California Earthquake Disaster of February 1971, Hearings Before ..., 94-1, June 10-12, 1971 - San Fernando, Calif
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1190
Book Description
Seismic Safety and Land-use Planning--selected Examples from California
Author: M. L. BlairPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Methods for using seismic zonation and hazard mapping in land-use planning and regulation.
Disaster Preparedness
Author: United States. Office of Emergency PreparednessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Disaster relief
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author: U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper
Author: National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 1973
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Special Subcommittee on the National Science FoundationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
National Science Foundation Authorization Act of 1973
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public WelfarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public WelfarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1556
Book Description
California Earthquakes
Author: Carl-Henry GeschwindPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801873606
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Winner of the Book Prize of the Forum for the History of Science in America from the History of Science Society 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.