A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Future - Hardcover

Reisner, Marc

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0436410540 ISBN 13: 9780436410543

Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

One in two people living west of the 100th meridian in the United States resides in California. Crammed into the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles Basin is a population greater than that of Texas. Both these drought-prone regions need to import water over seemingly improbably distances. Reliance on imported water, however, is not their Achilles heel; it is the fact that each sits astride one of the most violently active seismic zones in the world. This study chronicles the man-made eruption of development and progress over since the 1850s and a natural history of the subterranean upheavals that have threatened the human achievement. It concludes by describing in chillingly realistic detail the potential impact of an earthquake originating in the 60-mile Hayward Fault running from San Francisco to San Jose.

About this title

From the Publisher:

From the author of Cadillac Desert – the acclaimed saga of water and the American West – a vision of the future that California cannot escape.

About the Author:

Marc Reisner worked for many years at the Natural Resources Defense Counsel in the United States. He is the author of the legendary Cadillac Desert and also of Game Wars. Marc Reisner died in 2000.

About this edition

• Publisher: Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0436410540
• ISBN 13: 9780436410543
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192