Readings, in order of assignment

Wildfire

Pyne, S.J. 1982.

A burned-out case: A fire history of Southern California. In his Fire in America: A Cultural History of Wildland Fire and Rural Fire, pp. 404- 413. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.

Rodrigue, C.M. 1993.

Home with a view: Chaparral fire and the social geographies of risk and vulnerability. The California Geographer 33: 29-42. Also available at: http://www.csuchico.edu/~lapaloma/fire.html

Earthquakes

Alexander, D. 1993.

Excerpts from Earthquakes and volcanoes. Ch. 2 of his Natural Disasters, pp. 42-79. London: University of College London Press.

Rodrigue, C.M. and Rovai, E. 1995.

The "Northridge" earthquake: Differential geographies of damage, media attention, and recovery. National Social Science Perspectives Journal 7, 3: 97-111.

Volcanoes

Alexander, D. 1993.

Excerpts from Earthquakes and volcanoes. Ch. 2 of his Natural Disasters, pp. 90-112. London: University of College London Press.

Anonymous. 1999.

Hot spots: Early warning. Discover (March): 22. (handout)

Donlin, C. 1998.

Invisible CO₂ gas killing trees at Mammoth Mountain, California. U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 172-96, online version at http://geopubs.wr.usgs.gov/FactSheets/TreeKill/TreeKill.html

Various Cold Hazards

Alexander, D. 1993.

Excerpts from Atmospheric and hydrological hazards. Ch. 3 of his Natural Disasters, pp. 184-208. London: University of College London Press.

Rodrigue, C.M. 1999.

Lecture on avalanches: http://www.csuchico.edu/~lapaloma/geog260/avalanche.html.

MIDTERM

Floods

Alexander, D. 1993.

Excerpts from Atmospheric and hydrological hazards. Ch. 3 of his Natural Disasters, pp. 120-144. London: University of College London Press.

Monmonier, M. 1997.

Floodplains by definition. Ch. 6 of his Cartographies of Danger: Mapping Hazards in America, pp. 105-126. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

Extraterrestrial Impact Hazard

Davis, M. 1996.

Cosmic dancers on history's stage? The permanent revolution in the earth sciences. New Left Review 217 (May/June): 48-84.

Levy, E. 1994.

Early impacts: Earth emergent from its cosmic environment. In Hazards Due to Comets and Asteroids, ed. T. Gehrels, pp. 3-7. Tucson and London: University of Arizona Press.

Morrison, D.; Chapman, C.R.; and Slovic, P. 1994.

The impact hazard. In Hazards Due to Comets and Asteroids, ed. T. Gehrels, pp. 59-91. Tucson and London: University of Arizona Press.

Weissman, P.R. 1994.

Excerpts from The comet and asteroid impact hazard in perspective. In Hazards Due to Comets and Asteroids, ed. T. Gehrels, pp. 1191-1207. Tucson and London: University of Arizona Press.

Park, R.L.; Garver, L.B.; and Dawson, T. 1994.

The lesson of Grand Forks: Can a defense against asteroids be sustained? In Hazards Due to Comets and Asteroids, ed. T. Gehrels, pp. 1225-1230. Tucson and London: University of Arizona Press.

Technological Risks

Rodrigue, C.M. 1999.

Lecture on technological risks. http://www.csuchico.edu/~lapaloma/geog260/techhazard.html

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