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

• Main Author: Mazel-Cabasse, Charlotte (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: 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...