Shared Risk
Subtitle: Complex Systems in Seismic Response
Publisher: Pergamon
Published: August 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780080432113
Subjects: Social impact of disasters; Vulcanology & seismology; Science/Mathematics; Politics - Current Events; Disaster Relief Services; Disaster Situation Planning; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Risk management; Politics/International Relations; Public Policy - Regional Planning; Disaster Relief & Rescue Operations; Social Science / General; Human Services; Emergency management
First sentence: As the Northridge Meadows Apartments crumbled in the pre-dawn hours of January 17, 1994 in Northridge, California, neighbors first determined their own safety, then looked to see if others escaped danger.