Waiting for the Big One: Risk, Science, Experience, and Culture in Disaster Prep

Description: Waiting for the Big One by Charlotte Mazel-Cabasse This book helps understand how the future Big One (a large-scale and often-predicted earthquake) is understood, defined, and mitigated by experts, scientists, and residents in the San Francisco Bay Area. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description This book helps understand how the future Big One (a large-scale and often-predicted earthquake) is understood, defined, and mitigated by experts, scientists, and residents in the San Francisco Bay Area. Following the idea that earthquake risk is multiple and hard to grasp, the book explores the earthquakes "mode of existence," guiding the reader through different epistemic moments of the earthquake-risk definition. Through in-depth interviews, the book provides a rarely seen anthropology of risk from the perspective of experts, scientists, and concerned residents for whom the possibility of partial or complete destruction of their living environment is a constant companion of their everyday lives. It argues that the characterization of the threats and the measures taken to limit its impacts constitute an integrated part of both their residential experiences and their professional practices. Back Cover This book helps understand how the future Big One (a large-scale and often-predicted earthquake) is understood, defined, and mitigated by experts, scientists, and residents in the San Francisco Bay Area. Following the idea that earthquake risk is multiple and hard to grasp, the book explores the earthquakes "mode of existence," guiding the reader through different epistemic moments of the earthquake-risk definition. Through in-depth interviews, the book provides a rarely seen anthropology of risk from the perspective of experts, scientists, and concerned residents for whom the possibility of partial or complete destruction of their living environment is a constant companion of their everyday lives. It argues that the characterization of the threats and the measures taken to limit its impacts constitute an integrated part of both their residential experiences and their professional practices. Author Biography Charlotte Mazel-Cabasse, PhD, is the Executive Director of the Center for Digital Humanities, jointly developed by the University and the Polytechnic School of Lausanne, Switzerland. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography and Science and Technologies Studies from the University of Paris-Est, an MA in Cultural Geography from Université de Reims, France, and an MA and BA in Information and Communications Sciences from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences de lInformation et de la Communication (CELSA) at Université Paris Sorbonne. Table of Contents Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Multiples Existences of the Earthquake Risk.- Chapter 3. Traumatic Legacies: Shaping the Space of Risk.- Chapter 4. Living with Risks.- Chapter 5. The Case for Not Letting San Francisco Collapse.- Chapter 6. What (Sociotechnical) Resilience is Made of: Personal Trajectories and Earthquake Risk Mitigation in the San Francisco Bay Area.- Chapter 7. Conclusion. Feature Explores the epistemological connections between the scientific definition of risk and its actual experience Describes the motives driving earthquake expertise as described by self-proclaimed earthquake junkies Makes a theoretical contribution to the fields of Science and Technology Studies, Geography, and Anthropology Details ISBN303015288X ISBN-10 303015288X ISBN-13 9783030152888 Format Hardcover Pages 279 Short Title Waiting for the Big One Language English Subtitle Risk, Science, Experience, and Culture in Disaster Preparedness DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-15289-5 DEWEY 551.220979461 Year 2019 Publication Date 2019-09-11 Edition 1st Place of Publication Cham Country of Publication Switzerland UK Release Date 2019-09-11 Author Charlotte Mazel-Cabasse Publisher Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition Description 1st ed. 2019 Imprint Springer Nature Switzerland AG Alternative 9783030152918 Audience Professional & Vocational Illustrations 2 Illustrations, color; 11 Illustrations, black and white; XX, 279 p. 13 illus., 2 illus. in color. We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:127848974;

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