Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail but Some Succeed
Language: English
Published by Columbia University Press, 2021
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Title: Unnatural Disasters – Gonzalo Lizarralde (Columbia UP 2021) Main Description: New York: Columbia University Press, 2021. First edition hardback, 8vo (23 x 15 cm), 256 pp., cloth boards with dust jacket. ISBN 9780231198103. Exposes how "risk management" exacerbates inequality—from Haitian earthquake reconstruction to climate adaptation failures—while highlighting citizen-led alternatives. Essential for disaster studies, urban planning, and climate justice. Condition: Like new. Pristine unread copy in flawless dust jacket; no marks or shelfwear.
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- Title
- Unnatural Disasters: Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail but Some Succeed
- Author
- Lizarralde, Gonzalo
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Publication year
- 2021
- Condition
- As new
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0231198108
- ISBN 13
- 9780231198103
- Item weight
- 1,050 grams
- Dimensions
- 2.54 centimeters width by 15.88 centimeters height by 23.5 centimeters depth
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 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.
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