| Description |
1 online resource (380 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 comparativ |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Natural disasters -- Maps
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Hazardous geographic environments -- Maps
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Hazardous geographic environments.
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Natural disasters.
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| Genre/Form |
Maps.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226534299 |
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0226534294 |
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1281430463 |
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9781281430465 |
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9780226534183 |
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0226534189 |
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