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The Northridge Earthquake: Vulnerability and Disaster

by Robert Bolin

ISBN13: 9780203028070
ISBN10: 0203028074
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This book concentrates on the social aspects of disasters, focusing on the most expensive disaster to date in US history, the Northridge earthquake of 1994. Surveying historical and contemporary facets of life in Southern California, Robert Bolin explains how vulnerability to disaster has been shaped by more than a century of immigration, urbanization, environmental transformations, and economic development. This book also provides a global view of the social effects of other recent disasters in developed and developing countries. An invaluable insight into the field, the volume discusses key considerations of sustainable development and state policy, and suggests ways that vulnerability can be reduced in the future.

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ISBN:: 9780203028070
Publisher:: Routledge
Subject:: Technology : Agriculture - General
Creator:: Robert C. Bolin
Author:: Bolin, Robert
Author:: Stanford, Lois
Author:: Robert C. Bolin
Author:: Bolin, Robert C.
Author:: Lois Stanford
Subject:: Technology & Engineering : Agriculture - General
Subject:: Northridge (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Subject:: Earthquakes
Subject:: Disaster relief
Subject:: Philosophy & Social Aspects
Subject:: Environmental Science
Subject:: Natural Disasters
Subject:: Earthquakes -- California -- Los Angeles Region.
Subject:: Disaster relief -- California.
Subject:: Science Reference-Philosophy of Science
Subject:: main_subject
Subject:: all_subjects
Publication Date:: September 1998
Binding:: eBooks
Language:: English

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Science and Mathematics » Geology » Earthquakes and Volcanoes
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