GEOG 600 Readings
Seminar in Regional Geography
California as Hazard: Spring 2000
Introduction to Hazards (27 January)
- Alexander, D. 1993.
- Introduction. Ch. 1 of his Natural
Disasters, pp. 1-40. London: University of College London Press.
- Blaikie, P.; Cannon, T.; Davis, I.; and Wisner, B. 1994.
- The challenge of disasters and our approach. Ch. 1 of their At Risk:
Natural Hazards, People's Vulnerability, and Disasters, pp. 3-20. London
and New York: Routledge.
- Palm, D. 1990.
- Introduction to the study of natural hazards. Ch. 1 of her Natural
Hazards: An Integrative Framework for Research and Planning, pp. 1-17.
Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
Introduction to Hazardousness in California (3 February)
- Davis, Mike. 1998.
- The dialectic of ordinary disaster. Ch. 1 of his Ecology of Fear: Los
Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster, pp. 5-55. New York:
Metropolitan Books (Henry Holt and Co.).
The Political Ecology of Chaparral Fire in California (10
February)
- Davis, Mike. 1998.
- Excerpts from The case for letting Malibu burn. Ch. 3 of his Ecology
of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster, pp. 95-99, 102,
116, 130-136, 140-147. New York: Metropolitan Books (Henry Holt and Co.).
- Pyne, Stephen J. 1998.
- Excerpts from 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, Christine M. 1993.
- Home with a view: Chaparral fire hazard and the social geographies of
risk and vulnerability. California Geographer 33: 105-118. Available
at: http://www.jps.net/rodrigue/fire.html
A Brief Detour into Research Methods (Content Analysis, Surveys, and
Interviews): (17 February)
- Deneen, Donna. 1997.
- Acid rain and the press. Thesis proposal submitted in partial fulfillment
of the requirements for Geography 301, "Seminar in Research Models,"
Department of Geography and Planning, California State University, Chico.
- Rodrigue, Christine M.; Rovai, Eugenie; and Place, Susan E. 1997.
- Construction of the "Northridge" Earthquake in Los Angeles' English and
Spanish Print Media: Damage, Attention, and Skewed Recovery. Presented to
Nature's Workshop: Environmental Change in 20th Century Southern California,
the second Southern California Environment and History Conference, Northridge,
CA. Available
at: http://www.csuchico.edu/geop/chr/scehc97.html
- Sheskin, Ira. 1985.
- Excerpts from Questionnaire development. Ch. 4 of his
Survey Research for Geographers, pp. 55-59, 62-67. Resource
Publications in Geography. Washington, DC: Association of American
Geographers.
- Thayne, Russell. 1994.
- Excerpts from Methodology. Ch. 3 of his
Site Selection Indicators for Retail Anchor Tenants in Northern California
Neighborhood Shopping Centers, pp. 38-41. Thesis presented in partial
fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Science degree in
interdisciplinary studies (real estate development), California State
University, Chico.
Peer Critiques (24 February)
- Read and critique all your peers' initial purpose statements!
Earthquakes: Physical Dynamics (2 March)
- Alexander, D. 1993.
- Excerpts from Earthquakes and volcanoes. Ch. 2 of his Natural
Disasters, pp. 42-79. London: University of College London Press.
- USGS. 1996.
- The local effects of strong ground shaking; Cracking in natural ground. In
USGS Response to an Urban Earthquake: Northridge '94. FEMA Open-File
Report 96-263. Available at: http://geohazards.cr.usgs.gov/northridge/.
Earthquakes: Perception and Mitigation (9 March)
- Palm, Risa. 1995.
- Earthquake hazard mitigation: The role of insurance; Adoption of non-
insurance mitigation measures; Adoption of earthquake insurance;
Co-variates of earthquake insurance; and Policy implications. Ch. 3, 5, 6, 7,
and 10, respectively, of her Earthquake Insurance: A Longitudinal Study
of California Homeowners, pp. 29-34, 47-58, 59-67, 68-82, and 114-117.
Boulder, CO; San Francisco; and Oxford: Westview Press.
- Blanchard-Boehm, Denise. 1997.
- Risk communication in Southern California: Ethnic and gender response to
1995 revised, upgraded earthquake probabilities. Natural Hazards Center at
the University of Colorado, Boulder Quick Response Report 94.
Available at: http://www.Colorado.EDU/hazards/qr/qr94.html.
GIS and Hazard Analysis and Management (16 March)
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Gooding, Margaret. 1998.
- Studying Seismic Activity Using ArcView GIS and 3D Analyst. ArcUser
Online (October-December). Available at http://www.esri.com/news/arcuser/1098/quake.html
(and do browse around the earthquake and fault information sites included in
the "Jump Station" (references) link from this page).
- Mankelow, J.M. and Murphy, W. 1998.
- Using GIS in the probabilistic assessment of earthquake triggered
landslide hazards. Journal of Earthquake Engineering 2, 4: 593-623.
Abstract and maps available at http://www.sci.port.ac.uk/geology/staff/mankelow/paper.html
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Khazai, Bijan and Sitar, Nicholas. n.d.
- Landsliding in native ground: GIS approach to seismic slope stability.
http://www2.ced.berkeley.edu:8002/.
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Tzemos, S. and Burnett, R.A. n.d.
- Use of GIS in the Federal Emergency Management
Information System (FEMIS). Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Purdue
University. Available at: http://pasture.ecn.purdue.edu/~aggrass/esri95/to350/p345.html
- California State Department of Conservation, Division of Mines and
Geology. 2000.
- Index to seismic hazard zone maps. Available at http://www.consrv.ca.gov/dmg/shezp/maps.htm
Find CSULB (and, heck, maybe your house) and identify which if any of the two
mapped hazards poses an unusual risk on this campus.
The Final Frontier in Hazards? (23 March)
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Levy, Eugene H. 1994.
- Early impacts: Earth emergent from its cosmic environment. In Hazards
Due to Comets and Asteroids, ed. Tom Gehrels, pp. pp. 59-91. Tucson and
London: University of Arizona Press.
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Davis, Mike. 1996.
- Cosmic dancers on history's stage? The permanent revolution in the earth
sciences. New Left Review 217 (May/June): 48-84.
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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.
Writer's Block (30 March)
- Work on completing and polishing the first draft of your research project
for submission on Thursday, 06 April. Bring three copies of
what you have so far to class.
Circle of Vultures? (04 April)
- Read and critique two or three of your peers' first drafts, using the peer critique
form. Sign each draft you review, as well as your peer critique form (as
I'll have you critique your critics later as to how helpful they proved, once
you got over your snit about their comments). Your signed critiques are due
13 April.
A Medley of Biohazards (13 April)
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Anonymous. 1998.
- Bubonic plague hits San Francisco 1900-1909. People and Discoveries. A
Science Odyssey. Part of a television series broadcast on PBS from 11-15
January. Boston: WGBH. Text description available at: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dm00bu.html
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Frost, Richard H. 1996.
- Review of: Jackson, Robert H. 1994. Indian Population Decline: The
Missions of Northwestern New Spain, 1687-1840. Albuquerque:
University of New Mexico Press. Bulletin of the History of Medicine 70
(1): 133-134. Available at: http://www.press.jhu.edu/demo/bulletin_of_the_history_of_medicine/70.1br_jackson.html.
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Henderson, Donald A. 1999.
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The looming threat of bioterrorism. Science 238 (26 February): 1279-
1282.
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Lovell, W. George. 1992.
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"Heavy shadows and black night": Disease and depopulation in colonial Spanish
America." Annals, Association of American Geographers 82 (3): 426-443.
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Ziegler, Philip. 1969.
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Origins and nature. Ch. 1 of his The Black Death, pp. 13-29. New York
and other places: Harper and Row.
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