Cartographies of Danger: Mapping Hazards in America by Mark Monmonier

Cartographies of Danger: Mapping Hazards in America



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Cartographies of Danger: Mapping Hazards in America Mark Monmonier ebook
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Page: 378
ISBN: 9780226534183


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 about earthquakes in Puget Sound. But as the Northridge ...

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