Waiting for the Big One Risk, Science, Experience, and Culture in Disaster Preparedness /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Mazel-Cabasse, Charlotte (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Θέματα: Technology-Sociological aspects.; Ethnography.; Geography.; Technology.; Science and Technology Studies.; Geography, general.; Applied Science, multidisciplinary.

This book helps understand how the future Big One (a large-scale and often-predicted earthquake) is understood, defined, and mitigated by experts, scientists, and residents in the San Francisco Bay Area. Following the idea that earthquake risk is multiple and hard to grasp, the book explores the ear...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. The Multiples Existences of the Earthquake Risk
• Chapter 3. Traumatic Legacies: Shaping the Space of Risk
• Chapter 4. Living with Risks
• Chapter 5. The Case for Not Letting San Francisco Collapse
• Chapter 6. What (Sociotechnical) Resilience is Made of: Personal Trajectories and Earthquake Risk Mitigation in the San Francisco Bay Area
• Chapter 7. Conclusion.