The Disaster Experts : Mastering Risk in Modern America /

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This book traces the intertwined histories of disaster experts--specialists in predicting the unpredictable and managing the unmanageable--revealing how their interdisciplinary research and practices over the past century have shaped modern America.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Knowles, Scott Gabriel
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Risk assessment.
Emergency management > Research.
Emergency management.
Disasters.
Disaster relief > Research.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > General.
Catastrophes > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Évaluation du risque > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Catastrophes > Reduction > Recherche > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Emergency management > United States > History > 20th century.
Emergency management > Research > United States > History > 20th century.
Disasters > United States > History > 20th century.
Disaster relief > Research > United States > History > 20th century.
Risk assessment > United States > History > 20th century.
Hazard mitigation > Research > United States > History > 20th century.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. The Devil's Privilege
  • 2. Reforming Fire
  • 3. The Invisible Screen of Safety
  • 4. Ten to Twenty Million Killed, Tops
  • 5. What Is a Disaster?
  • 6. A Nation of Hazards
  • NOTES
  • INDEX
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.

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