Lizarralde Unnatural Disasters

Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail but Some Succeed
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-231-55250-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lizarralde, Gonzalo

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Naturgewalten & Katastrophen
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Nachhaltigkeit
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftssysteme, Wirtschaftsstrukturen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Entwicklungsökonomie & Emerging Markets
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Folgen von Katastrophen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Gonzalo Lizarralde is a professor of architecture at the Université de Montréal, where he holds the Fayolle-Magil Construction Chair in Architecture, Built Environment, and Sustainability. He is the director of the Canadian Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Reconstruction Research Alliance. His books include The Invisible Houses: Rethinking and Designing Low-Cost Housing in Developing Countries (2014).