The dynamics of risk : changing technologies and collective action in seismic events / Louise K. Comfort.

Earthquakes are a huge global threat. In thirty-six countries, severe seismic risks threaten populations and their increasingly interdependent systems of transportation, communication, energy, and finance. in this important book, the author provides an unprecedented examination of how twelve communi...

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Main Author: Comfort, Louise K. (Louise Kloos), 1935- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]
Series:Princeton studies in complexity.
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