The Northridge Earthquake: Vulnerability and Disaster

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This book provides a global view of the social effects of disaster in developed and developing countries. It focuses on the 1994 Northridge Earthquake in the U.S. and other recent disasters to examine vulnerability and post-disaster recovery strategies. The authors also explore the ways state policy can reduce vulnerability in the future.

Bio

Bob Bolin is a professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change whose work explores the political ecology of technological hazards and questions of social vulnerability and environmental justice. His research approach combines hazards geography, Marxist political ecology and environmental justice to study a broad suite of environmental inequalities.