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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Monmonier, Mark.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Maps.

Natural disasters.

Local Subjects:

Maps.

Natural disasters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

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 comparatively lax a

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786611430467

OCLC:

476227934