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