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Record Nr.

UNINA9910741381003321

Autore

Reddy Elizabeth

Titolo

¡Alerta! : engineering on shaky ground / / Elizabeth Reddy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2023]

ISBN

0-262-37438-2

0-262-37437-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (214 pages)

Collana

Engineering studies

Disciplina

551.220972

Soggetti

Earthquake prediction - Mexico - History

Environmental monitoring - Mexico - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Environment, Society, and Technology -- 1. Life with Earthquakes -- 2. Earthquakes and Warnings -- II. Risk Mitigation Technology -- 3. A Technology to Mitigate Risk -- 4. Integrating Infrastructures -- III. Engineering Risk Mitigation -- 5. Measuring Earthquakes Like Engineers -- 6. Fieldwork and New Encounters -- Conclusion -- Methodological Appendix -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"The author builds on insights developed from observations of Mexico's earthquake early warning system, Sistema de Alerta Sísmica Mexicano, to show how particular social and physical conditions animate the design, maintenance, and use of environmental monitoring technologies, and how they shape where, when, and for whom these technologies manage risk"--