Description
Book SynopsisPlaces Oakland's public policy response to building damage suffered in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in a historical and intergovernmental context. Using a combined non-decision making and advocacy coalition approach, this book demonstrates why hazardous-structure abatement was kept off the political agenda prior to the Loma Prieta disaster.
Table of ContentsList of tables. List of figures. Acknowledgements. Abstract. Framing an Extreme Event. Policy dynamics and disaster. A case study approach and an "amended" advocacy coalition framework. Agenda control, non-decision making, California, and seismic safety. Disasters, guilty knowledge, policy types, and conflict levels. Previous hazardous-structure abatement studies (ACF-reframed). Context and Case. Oakland and seismic safety - the intergovernmental context. Pre-Loma Prieta Oakland and the un-politics of URMS. Event response and the first three ordinances. Ordinance four through eight - and a singularly important REP. The final act, the URM ordinance. Interesting, but what does it all mean?
