Unnatural disasters :: why most responses to risk and climate change fail but some succeed /
"Storms, floods, fires, tsunamis, earthquakes, tornadoes, and other disasters seem not only more frequent but also closer to home. As the world faces this onslaught, we have placed our faith in "sustainable development," which promises that we can survive and even thrive in the face o...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Storms, floods, fires, tsunamis, earthquakes, tornadoes, and other disasters seem not only more frequent but also closer to home. As the world faces this onslaught, we have placed our faith in "sustainable development," which promises that we can survive and even thrive in the face of climate change and other risks. Yet while claiming to "go green," we have instead created new risks, continued to degrade nature, and failed to halt global warming. Unnatural Disasters offers a new perspective on our most pressing environmental and social challenges, revealing the gaps between abstract concepts like sustainability, resilience, and innovation and the real-world experiences of the people living at risk. Gonzalo Lizarralde explains how the causes of disasters are not natural but all too human: inequality, segregation, marginalization, colonialism, neoliberalism, racism, and unrestrained capitalism. He tells the stories of Latin American migrants, Haitian earthquake survivors, Canadian climate activists, African slum dwellers, and other people resisting social and environmental injustices around the world. Lizarralde shows that most reconstruction and risk-reduction efforts exacerbate social inequalities. Some responses do produce meaningful changes, but they are rarely the ones powerful leaders have in mind. This book reveals how disasters have become both the causes and consequences of today's most urgent challenges and proposes achievable solutions to save a planet at risk, emphasizing the power citizens hold to change the current state of affairs"-- |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231552509 0231552505 |
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t Preface -- |t Acknowledgments -- |t Introduction: "It Won't Be Easy, But We Have Little Choice" -- |t 1 Causes: "Disasters Happen for a Reason" -- |t 2 Change: "They Want to Build Something Modern Here" -- |t 3 Sustainability: "They Often Come Here With Their Talk About Green Solutions" -- |t 4 Resilience: "They Say That We Must Adapt" -- |t 5 Participation: "They Want Us to Participate in the Construction of I-Don't-Know-What" -- |t 6 Innovation: "We Need Something Really Innovative, They Said" -- |t 7 Decision-Making: "We Want to Be Able to Make Our Own Decisions" -- |t 8 Humility: "The Damn Circumstance of Water Everywhere" -- |t Notes -- |t Index |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Sustainable development. |0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92005743 | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Catastrophes écologiques. | |
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| contents | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "It Won't Be Easy, But We Have Little Choice" -- 1 Causes: "Disasters Happen for a Reason" -- 2 Change: "They Want to Build Something Modern Here" -- 3 Sustainability: "They Often Come Here With Their Talk About Green Solutions" -- 4 Resilience: "They Say That We Must Adapt" -- 5 Participation: "They Want Us to Participate in the Construction of I-Don't-Know-What" -- 6 Innovation: "We Need Something Really Innovative, They Said" -- 7 Decision-Making: "We Want to Be Able to Make Our Own Decisions" -- 8 Humility: "The Damn Circumstance of Water Everywhere" -- Notes -- Index |
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| spelling | Lizarralde, Gonzalo, 1974- author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2009011162 Unnatural disasters : why most responses to risk and climate change fail but some succeed / Gonzalo Lizarralde. New York : Columbia University Press, [2021] 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "Storms, floods, fires, tsunamis, earthquakes, tornadoes, and other disasters seem not only more frequent but also closer to home. As the world faces this onslaught, we have placed our faith in "sustainable development," which promises that we can survive and even thrive in the face of climate change and other risks. Yet while claiming to "go green," we have instead created new risks, continued to degrade nature, and failed to halt global warming. Unnatural Disasters offers a new perspective on our most pressing environmental and social challenges, revealing the gaps between abstract concepts like sustainability, resilience, and innovation and the real-world experiences of the people living at risk. Gonzalo Lizarralde explains how the causes of disasters are not natural but all too human: inequality, segregation, marginalization, colonialism, neoliberalism, racism, and unrestrained capitalism. He tells the stories of Latin American migrants, Haitian earthquake survivors, Canadian climate activists, African slum dwellers, and other people resisting social and environmental injustices around the world. Lizarralde shows that most reconstruction and risk-reduction efforts exacerbate social inequalities. Some responses do produce meaningful changes, but they are rarely the ones powerful leaders have in mind. This book reveals how disasters have become both the causes and consequences of today's most urgent challenges and proposes achievable solutions to save a planet at risk, emphasizing the power citizens hold to change the current state of affairs"-- Provided by publisher. Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 24, 2021). Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "It Won't Be Easy, But We Have Little Choice" -- 1 Causes: "Disasters Happen for a Reason" -- 2 Change: "They Want to Build Something Modern Here" -- 3 Sustainability: "They Often Come Here With Their Talk About Green Solutions" -- 4 Resilience: "They Say That We Must Adapt" -- 5 Participation: "They Want Us to Participate in the Construction of I-Don't-Know-What" -- 6 Innovation: "We Need Something Really Innovative, They Said" -- 7 Decision-Making: "We Want to Be Able to Make Our Own Decisions" -- 8 Humility: "The Damn Circumstance of Water Everywhere" -- Notes -- Index Environmental disasters. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006008090 Climatic changes. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85027037 Sustainability. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009000375 Green movement. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90000587 Sustainable development. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92005743 Catastrophes écologiques. Climat Changements. Durabilité de l'environnement. Écologisme. Développement durable. man-made disasters. aat climate change. aat sustainable development. aat NATURE / Natural Disasters bisacsh Climatic changes fast Environmental disasters fast Green movement fast Sustainability fast Sustainable development fast has work: Unnatural disasters (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCFvHDhxW6cJdHFCwmhVvjK https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: Lizarralde, Gonzalo, 1974- Unnatural disasters New York : Columbia University Press, [2021] 9780231198103 (DLC) 2020055429 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=2700029 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Lizarralde, Gonzalo, 1974- Unnatural disasters : why most responses to risk and climate change fail but some succeed / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "It Won't Be Easy, But We Have Little Choice" -- 1 Causes: "Disasters Happen for a Reason" -- 2 Change: "They Want to Build Something Modern Here" -- 3 Sustainability: "They Often Come Here With Their Talk About Green Solutions" -- 4 Resilience: "They Say That We Must Adapt" -- 5 Participation: "They Want Us to Participate in the Construction of I-Don't-Know-What" -- 6 Innovation: "We Need Something Really Innovative, They Said" -- 7 Decision-Making: "We Want to Be Able to Make Our Own Decisions" -- 8 Humility: "The Damn Circumstance of Water Everywhere" -- Notes -- Index Environmental disasters. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006008090 Climatic changes. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85027037 Sustainability. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009000375 Green movement. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90000587 Sustainable development. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92005743 Catastrophes écologiques. Climat Changements. Durabilité de l'environnement. Écologisme. Développement durable. man-made disasters. aat climate change. aat sustainable development. aat NATURE / Natural Disasters bisacsh Climatic changes fast Environmental disasters fast Green movement fast Sustainability fast Sustainable development fast |
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| title | Unnatural disasters : why most responses to risk and climate change fail but some succeed / |
| title_alt | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "It Won't Be Easy, But We Have Little Choice" -- 1 Causes: "Disasters Happen for a Reason" -- 2 Change: "They Want to Build Something Modern Here" -- 3 Sustainability: "They Often Come Here With Their Talk About Green Solutions" -- 4 Resilience: "They Say That We Must Adapt" -- 5 Participation: "They Want Us to Participate in the Construction of I-Don't-Know-What" -- 6 Innovation: "We Need Something Really Innovative, They Said" -- 7 Decision-Making: "We Want to Be Able to Make Our Own Decisions" -- 8 Humility: "The Damn Circumstance of Water Everywhere" -- Notes -- Index |
| title_auth | Unnatural disasters : why most responses to risk and climate change fail but some succeed / |
| title_exact_search | Unnatural disasters : why most responses to risk and climate change fail but some succeed / |
| title_full | Unnatural disasters : why most responses to risk and climate change fail but some succeed / Gonzalo Lizarralde. |
| title_fullStr | Unnatural disasters : why most responses to risk and climate change fail but some succeed / Gonzalo Lizarralde. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Unnatural disasters : why most responses to risk and climate change fail but some succeed / Gonzalo Lizarralde. |
| title_short | Unnatural disasters : |
| title_sort | unnatural disasters why most responses to risk and climate change fail but some succeed |
| title_sub | why most responses to risk and climate change fail but some succeed / |
| topic | Environmental disasters. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006008090 Climatic changes. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85027037 Sustainability. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009000375 Green movement. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90000587 Sustainable development. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92005743 Catastrophes écologiques. Climat Changements. Durabilité de l'environnement. Écologisme. Développement durable. man-made disasters. aat climate change. aat sustainable development. aat NATURE / Natural Disasters bisacsh Climatic changes fast Environmental disasters fast Green movement fast Sustainability fast Sustainable development fast |
| topic_facet | Environmental disasters. Climatic changes. Sustainability. Green movement. Sustainable development. Catastrophes écologiques. Climat Changements. Durabilité de l'environnement. Écologisme. Développement durable. man-made disasters. climate change. sustainable development. NATURE / Natural Disasters Climatic changes Environmental disasters Green movement Sustainability Sustainable development |
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