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Author:

Beamish, Thomas D., author.

Title:

Community at risk : biodefense and the collective search for security / Thomas D. Beamish.

Publisher:

Stanford Business Booksan imprint of Stanford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xiii, 259 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Risk management--Political aspects--United States--Case studies.
Biosecurity--United States--Public opinion--Case studies.
Biological laboratories--United States--Public opinion--Case studies.
Bioterrorism--Public opinion--Research--Public opinion--Case studies.
Public opinion--United States--Case studies.
Local government--United States.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Conceptual footings of risk and governance -- Risk communication, local civics, and discourse -- Davis, California : home rule civics and biodefense -- Roxbury, Massachusetts : direct action civics and biodefense -- Galveston, Texas : managed civics and biodefense -- Conclusion : the civic politics of risk.

Series:

High reliability and crisis management

ISBN:

0804784426 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804784429 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)894746122

LCCN:

2014045953

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)