The Communist Party's miracle -- Party spirit made flesh -- Blood transfusion, generation, and anemia -- The utopia of urban planning -- The mirage of development -- The ideological pursuit of ecology
"In Shaken Authority, Christian P. Sorace examines the political mechanisms at work in the aftermath of the 2008 Sichuan earthquake and the broader ideological energies that drove them. Sorace takes Communist Party ideas and discourse as central to how that organization formulat…
Seismic imaging, fault damage and heal
The Fukushima disaster continues to appear in national newspapers when there is another leakage of radiation-contaminated water, evacuation designations are changed, or major compensation issues arise and so remains far from over. However, after five years, attention and researc…
Introduction / Mitsuo Yamakawa, Katsumi Nakai, Daisaku Yamamoto -- Shaky ground : the geophysical dynamics and sustained seismicity of the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku earthquake / Yosuke Nakamura -- Outline of an invisible disaster : physio-spatial processes and the dif…
The Fukushima disaster continues to appear in national newspapers when there is another leakage of radiation-contaminated water, evacuation designations are changed, or major compensation issues arise and so remains far from over. However, after five years, attention and researc…
"In 2009, after seismic tremors struck the Italian mountain town of L'Aquila, survivors were subjected to a "second earthquake"-invasive media attention and a relief effort that left them in a state of suspended citizenship as they were forcibly resettled and had to envision a n…
"Neotectonics involves the study of the motions and deformations of the Earth's crust that are current or recent in geologic time. The Mediterranean region is one of the most important regions for neotectonics and related natural hazards. This volume focuses on the neotectonics …
"Colonialismo en ruinas analiza las consecuencias del terremoto y tsunami que devastaron Uma y el Callao en octubre de 1746, no solo entre quienes lo sufrieron en carne propia sino su repercusión en el Imperio español. Con una ciudad en ruinas y miles de personas damnificadas y …
Six thousand people died and hundreds of thousands lost their homes when the Great Hanshin Earthquake hit Kobe in January 1995. It was the largest disaster to affect postwar Japan and one of the most destructive postwar natural disasters to strike a developed country. Although t…
Six thousand people died and hundreds of thousands lost their homes when the Great Hanshin Earthquake hit Kobe in January 1995. It was the largest disaster to affect postwar Japan and one of the most destructive postwar natural disasters to strike a developed country. Although t…
Six thousand people died and hundreds of thousands lost their homes when the Great Hanshin Earthquake hit Kobe in January 1995. It was the largest disaster to affect postwar Japan and one of the most destructive postwar natural disasters to strike a developed country. Although t…