Disaster Response by Ceauşescu’s Communist Regime in Romania - The 1977 Earthquake

This book contains the first comprehensive history using extensive primary sources to trace the disaster response the regime engaged in, contextualizing its contribution to the public risk that remains in Romania's capital Bucharest.

List of contents

Introduction
1. A Primer: Communist Romania under Ceaüescu
2. Experiencing the Earthquake and the Initial Response
3. Recovering Valuables and Influencing Foreign Assistance
4. Mandating Benevolence
5. Assessing the Structural Damage
6. Ending the Disaster Response: The July Cessation Order
7. Living Unsafe: Bucharest's Public Risk
Epilogue
Appendix A: The Civic Center Project and Its House of the People
Appendix B: The Identified 1977 Earthquake Victims
Appendix C: An Earthquake Preparation Guide for Romania
Bibliography

About the author

Karin Steinbrueck is a modern European historian and is an assistant professor at National Louis University, Chicago. She has lived and worked in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union as a Peace Corps Volunteer, Fulbright Scholar, Boren Fellow, and Foreign Language and Area Studies grant recipient. She lives with her family in Evanston, Illinois, USA.

Summary

This book contains the first comprehensive history using extensive primary sources to trace the disaster response the regime engaged in, contextualizing its contribution to the public risk that remains in Romania’s capital Bucharest.

Product details

• Authors: Karin Steinbrueck
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032632919
• ISBN: 978-1-03-263291-9
• No. of pages: 192
• Weight: 530 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Routledge Studies in Hazards, Disaster Risk and Climate Change
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Climate Change, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, NATURE / Natural Disasters, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Environmental Economics, NATURE / Earthquakes & Volcanoes, Romania, Environmental Economics, Social impact of environmental issues, Natural disasters, Environmental policy & protocols, Human Geography, Environmental policy and protocols