| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 363 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-349 pages) and index. |
| 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 comparativ. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Natural disasters -- Maps.
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Natural disasters -- Maps. |
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Natural disasters. |
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Hazardous geographic environments -- Maps.
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Hazardous geographic environments. |
| Genre/Form |
Maps.
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Electronic books.
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Maps.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Monmonier, Mark S. Cartographies of danger. Chicago, Ill. : University of Chicago Press, 1997 0226534189 (DLC) 96035082 (OCoLC)35331226 |
| ISBN |
0226534294 (electronic book) |
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9780226534299 (electronic book) |
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0226534189 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0226534197 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9780226534183 |
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