Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Special Studies Subcommittee
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Category : Hazardous geographic environments
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Investigates FHA and VA financed housing construction in areas susceptible to earthquakes, floods, mud slides, and earth faulting.
Federal Involvement in Hazardous Geologic Areas
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Special Studies Subcommittee
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Category : Hazardous geographic environments
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Investigates FHA and VA financed housing construction in areas susceptible to earthquakes, floods, mud slides, and earth faulting.
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Category : Hazardous geographic environments
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Investigates FHA and VA financed housing construction in areas susceptible to earthquakes, floods, mud slides, and earth faulting.
Federal Involvement in Hazardous Geological Areas
Author: United States. Congress. House. Government Operations
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Intermediate Report of the Committee on Government Operations
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
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Languages : en
Pages : 1346
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Languages : en
Pages : 1346
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Report
Author: United States. Congress. House
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1958
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1958
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California Earthquakes
Author: Carl-Henry Geschwind
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801873606
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
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.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 0801873606
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
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.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages :
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Teton Dam Disaster
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Conservation, Energy, and Natural Resources Subcommittee
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Category : Dam failures
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Category : Dam failures
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Teton Dam disaster
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Natural Resources
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Category : Dam failures
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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Category : Dam failures
Languages : en
Pages : 688
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Activities of the House Committee on Government Operations
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1494
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Languages : en
Pages : 1494
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Interim Report of the Activities of the House Committee on Government Operations
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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