Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-255) and indexes.
Contents
BOOK COVER; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; 1 A common disaster; 2 Perspectives on disasters; 3 Situating the Northridge earthquake; 4 Situating the communities and the research; 5 Responding to Northridge; 6 Restructuring after Northridge; 7 Vulnerability, sustainability, and social change; References; Name index; Subject index.
Summary
This book concentrates on the social aspects of disaster, focusing on the most expensive disaster to date in US history, the Northridge earthquake of 1994, to examine the facets of vulnerability and post-disaster recovery strategies.