Elizabeth Reddy

¡Alerta!

Engineering on Shaky Ground

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The author builds on insights developed from observations of Mexico's earthquake early warning system, Sistema de Alerta Sâismica Mexicano, to show how particular social and physical conditions animate the design, maintenance, and use of environmental monitoring technologies, and how they shape where, when, and for whom these technologies manage risk"--

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 229mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 372g
• ISBN-13: 9780262545518
• ISBN-10: 0262545519
• Artikelnr.: 66745670

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Reddy

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
I Environment, Society, and Technology
1 Life with Earthquakes 15
2 Earthquakes and Warnings 41
II Risk Mitigation Technology
3 A Technology to Mitigate Risk 65
4 Integrating Infrastructures 83
III Engineering Risk Mitigation 
5 Measuring Earthquakes like Engineers 103
6 Fieldwork and New Encounters 123
Conclusion 143
Methodological Appendix 147
Notes 159
Index 209