Cartographies of Danger - Mapping Hazards in America

List of contents

Preface Acknowledgments 1: Map Scale, Danger Zones, and Safe Places 2: Shaky Preparations 3: Lavas and Other Strangers 4: Uncertain Shores 5: Death Tracks 6: Floodplains, by Definition... 7: Subterranean Poisons 8: Ill Winds 9: Short-Lived Daughters and ELF Fields 10: Nuclear Nightmares 11: Imagining Vulnerability 12: Crimescapes 13: John Snow's Legacy 14: Emerging Cartographies of Danger Notes Index

About the author

Mark Monmonier is distinguished professor of geography at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.

Summary

Explains how maps can tell where to anticipate certain hazards, but also how maps can be misleading. The text considers that although it is important to predict and prepare for catastrophic natural hazards, more subtle and persistent phenomena such as pollution and crime also pose serious dangers.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Monmonier, Mark S. Monmonier, Monmonier Mark
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.05.1997
• EAN: 9780226534183
• ISBN: 978-0-226-53418-3
• No. of pages: 378
• Dimensions: 17 mm x 24 mm x 3 mm
• Weight: 680 g
• Series: Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; USA, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Cartography, Cartography, map-making & projections, Pollution & threats to the environment, United States of America, USA, Social impact of disasters, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Cartography, map-making and projections, Pollution and threats to the environment, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)