TY  - BOOK
AU  - Monmonier,Mark S.
TI  - Cartographies of danger: mapping hazards in America 
SN  - 0226534294 (electronic bk.)
AV  - GB5014 .M66 1997eb
U1  - 363.34/022/3 20
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Chicago, Ill.
PB  - University of Chicago Press
KW  - Natural disasters
KW  - Maps
KW  - Hazardous geographic environments
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - NATURE
KW  - Natural Disasters
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Disasters & Disaster Relief
KW  - local
KW  - სახიფათო გეოგრაფიული პირობები
KW  - სტიქიური უბედურებები
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-349 p.) and index
N2  - 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
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