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Natural disasters in the United States : making sense of risks and vulnerability / Natalie Rauscher, Welf Werner, editors.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Rauscher, Natalie, editor.
Werner, Welf, editor.
EBSCOhost
Series:
Risk, governance and society ; v. 22.
Risk, Governance and Society ; volume 22
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Emergency management--United States.
Emergency management.
Natural disasters--United States.
Natural disasters.
Hazard mitigation--United States.
Hazard mitigation.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (vii, 270 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
Place of Publication:
Cham : Springer, [2025]
Contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction
Part I: Governance
Chapter 2. Disaster Made Manifest: The Federal Role in U.S. Natural Disasters
Chapter 3. Nature by Numbers: The National Flood Insurance Program
Chapter 4. All of the Above: Energy, Environmental Politics, and U.S. Climate Change Policy since the 1970s Oil Crises
Chapter 5. Letting Nature Do its Thing: Early Flood Control and Environmental Disaster along the Los Angeles River
Part II: Representation and Perception
Chapter 6. Hopeless Optimism: Framing Early 20th Century Earthquakes as News and History in the Making
Chapter 7. Hurricanes and Theodicy in 20th and 21st Century American Protestantism
Chapter 8. Through the Eyes of the White, Innocent Child: Whiteness, Vulnerability, and (Environmental) Crisis in Lauren Tarshis I Survived Series
Chapter 9. Reporting Catastrophes: Mainstream Media and Vulnerability to Disasters in the U.S.
Part III: Impact and Response
Chapter 10. Multinational Insurers and Catastrophic Loss: Responses to the San Francisco Disaster of 1906
Chapter 11. Oil Ports and Hurricanes along the Texas Gulf Coast
Chapter 12. Becoming Green: Resilient and Green Building as Risk Mitigation in Atlanta, Georgia.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 8, 2025).
Other Format:
Print version: Natural disasters in the United States
ISBN:
9783031964367
3031964365
Publisher Number:
90103976826
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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