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    When Good Science Won (but it wasn't easy): California's Rise to Earthquake Safety Leadership
    When Good Science Won (but it wasn't easy): California's Rise to Earthquake Safety Leadership
    When Good Science Won (but it wasn't easy): California's Rise to Earthquake Safety Leadership
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    When Good Science Won (but it wasn't easy): California's Rise to Earthquake Safety Leadership

    By Robert A Olson

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    There ought to be a law! How many times have we said and heard this desire? From his extensive experience with crafting, advocating, and implementing many of California's earthquake safety laws, author Robert A. Olson takes the reader into the process by answering the critical question: How are earthquake safety requirements conceived and made i

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWhispering Oak Publishing
    Release dateMay 6, 2021
    ISBN9781737166313
    When Good Science Won (but it wasn't easy): California's Rise to Earthquake Safety Leadership
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    Robert A Olson

    Robert A. Olson is the retired president of Robert Olson Associates Inc., a California-based consulting firm that specialized in hazard mitigation, disaster prevention, emergency management planning and training, contingency planning, policy research and advocacy, and community post-disaster recovery planning. Mr. Olson earned a BA in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1960 and his MA in political science from the University of Oregon in 1964. He served as (1) Planning Officer and Regional Representative for the U.S. Office of Emergency Preparedness (now the Federal Emergency Management Agency) from 1964 to 1971; (2) Assistant Director, San Francisco Bay Area Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC) from 1971 to 1975; and (3) the first Executive Director of the California Seismic Safety Commission from 1975 to 1981. His consultancy remained open from 1981 until his retirement, with occasional project work continuing until 2020. During his career Mr. Olson has been affiliated with UC Berkeley's Institute of Governmental Studies; Earthquake Engineering Research Center; and the Center for Environmental Design Research. While with the MTC, he led the organizing of the BART Impact Studies program between MTC and UC Berkeley's Center for Urban and Regional Development. Mr. Olson also has held research positions at Stanford University, University of Illinois, California Institute of Technology, Florida International University, and the University of Southern California. In addition, he has independently reviewed hazards research proposals and projects for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Associated Universities. He was the first member with a social science education admitted to membership in 1973 in the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. He served as its Vice President, a member of the Board of Directors, as Acting Executive Director, a member of several post-earthquake investigation teams, and a member of the Editorial Board, and served on various committees, including Public Policy, Urban Earthquake Hazards Reduction, and the Seismic Performance of Buildings. Honorary membership was bestowed on him in 2004. Mr. Olson helped design and oversee the initial development and testing of FEMA's "HAZUS" multi-hazard loss estimation software. He was a contributing author to the National Research Council's book titled Facing Hazards and Disasters, and wrote an article on a federal mitigation law's implementation for the Journal of Hazard Mitigation and Risk Assessment. He co-authored Some Buildings Just Can't Dance: Politics, Life Safety, and Disaster that examined the problems the City of Oakland had after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. He and others completed a research study on the building safety problems that the City of Oroville in Butte County faced following the 1975 earthquake. Mr. Olson was a member of California's Tsunami Policy Working Group and worked with a consultancy to prepare a guidebook for local planners on minimizing exposure to potential tsunami damage.

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