Education and Technology Development to Reduce California's Earthquake Losses
Title | Education and Technology Development to Reduce California's Earthquake Losses PDF eBook |
Author | California. Seismic Safety Commission. Research Implementation Committee |
Publisher | |
Pages | 8 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Buildings |
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Reducing Earthquake Losses
Title | Reducing Earthquake Losses PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Nature |
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Meeting California's Earthquake Engineering Research Needs
Title | Meeting California's Earthquake Engineering Research Needs PDF eBook |
Author | California. Seismic Safety Commission |
Publisher | |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Earthquake engineering |
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California State Publications
Title | California State Publications PDF eBook |
Author | California State Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 586 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | California |
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National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program
Title | National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Basic Research |
Publisher | |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Science |
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California Earthquakes
Title | California Earthquakes PDF eBook |
Author | Carl-Henry Geschwind |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 348 |
Release | 2003-04-30 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0801873606 |
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.
National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program
Title | National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space |
Publisher | |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
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