TY  - BOOK
AU  - Geschwind,Carl-Henry
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - California earthquakes: science, risk, & the politics of hazard mitigation 
AV  - QE535.2.U6 G485 2001eb
U1  - 363.34/95/09794 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Baltimore, London
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Earthquake hazard analysis
KW  - California
KW  - History
KW  - Earthquakes
KW  - Safety measures
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2005; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10021514
ER  -