Waiting for the Big One - Risk, Science, Experience, and Culture in Disaster Preparedness (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)

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 earthquake's "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.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	September 2019
First published:	2019
Authors:	Charlotte Mazel-Cabasse
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	279
Edition:	1st ed. 2019
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-015288-8
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Environmental impact of natural disasters & phenomena Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Social impact of disasters > General
LSN:	3-03-015288-X
Barcode:	9783030152888

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