Flame and Fortune in the American West: Urban Development, Environmental Change, and the Great Oakland Hills Fire Volume 1
(Part of the Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics Series)
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Flame and Fortune in the American West creatively and meticulously investigates the ongoing politics, folly, and avarice shaping the production of increasingly widespread yet dangerous suburban and exurban landscapes. The 1991 Oakland Hills Tunnel Fire is used as a starting point to better understand these complex social-environmental processes. The Tunnel Fire is the most destructive fire--in terms of structures lost--in California history...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0520292790
ISBN13:9780520292796
Release Date:October 2016
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:272 Pages
Weight:0.88 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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