Gonzalo Lizarralde

Unnatural Disasters

Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail but Some Succeed

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 163mm x 236mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780231198103
• ISBN-10: 0231198108
• Artikelnr.: 60937247

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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