Cartographies of Danger [[electronic resource] ] : Mapping Hazards in America

• Autore: Monmonier Mark
• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (380 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.34/022/3; 526.097
• Soggetto topico: Maps; Natural disasters
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 entertaining and immensely informative book, maps can tell us a lot about where we can anticipate certain hazards, but they can also be dangerously misleading.California, for example, takes earthquakes seriously, with a comprehensive program of seismic mapping, whereas Washington has been comparatively lax a
• Titolo autorizzato: Cartographies of danger
• ISBN: 9786611430467
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777036403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II