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Cartographies of Danger : Mapping Hazards in America.
No place is perfectly safe, but some places are more dangerous than others. Whether we live on a floodplain or in "Tornado Alley," near a nuclear facility or in a neighborhood poorly lit at night, we all co-exist uneasily with natural and man-made hazards. As Mark Monmonier shows in this e...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
1997.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cartographies of Danger; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Map Scale, Danger Zones, and Safe Places; 2 Shaky Preparations; 3 Lavas and Other Strangers; 4 Uncertain Shores; 5 Death Tracks; 6 Floodplains, by Definition ... ; 7 Subterranean Poisons; 8 Ill Winds; 9 Short-Lived Daughters and ELF Fields; 10 Nuclear Nightmares; 11 Imagining Vulnerability; 12 Crimescapes; 13 John Snow's Legacy; 14 Emerging Cartographies of Danger; Notes; Index.