Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this edited volume illustrates how and why cities are comprised by a mosaic of vulnerable human and ecological communities. Case studies range across various international settings and reveal how 'urban vulnerabilities' is an effective metaphor and analytic lens for advancing political ecological theories on the relationship between humans and the environment in urban settings
Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this edited volume illustrates how and why cities are comprised by a mosaic of vulnerable human and ecological communities. Case studies range across various international settings and reveal how 'urban vulnerabilities' is an effective metaphor and analytic lens for advancing political ecological theories on the relationship between humans and the environment in urban settings
Dr Sarah Dooling, University of Texas Austin, USA and Dr Gregory Simon, University of Colorado Denver, USA.
Inhaltsangabe
Part 1 Geographies of Wealth and risk Accumulation: Neoliberal Policy and Resource Instrumentalism; Chapter 1 Cities Nature and Development: The Politics and Production of Urban Vulnerabilities Sarah Dooling Gregory Simon; Chapter 2 Development Risk Momentum and the Ecology of Vulnerability: A Historical'"relational Analysis of the 1991 Oakland Hills Firestorm Gregory Simon; Chapter 3 The Neoliberal Production of Vulnerability and Unequal Risk Timothy W. Collins Anthony M. Jimenez; Chapter 4 The Production of Urban Vulnerability Through Market-based Parks Governance Harold A. Perkins; Part 2 Unanticipated Vulnerabilities: Sustainability Planning Environmental Movements and Activism; Chapter 5 Re-imagining the Local: Scale Race Culture and the Production of Food Vulnerabilities Julian Agyeman Benjamin L. Simons; Chapter 6 Sustainability Planning Ecological Gentrification and the Production of Urban Vulnerabilities Sarah Dooling; Chapter 7 Between Here and There: Mobilizing Urban Vulnerabilities in Climate Camps and Transition Towns Kelvin Mason Mark Whitehead; Part 3 Vulnerabilities in the Urbanizing Context: Cultural and Demographic Transformations; Chapter 8 Co-opting Restoration: Women Voluntarism and Insurgent Performance in Philadelphia Alec Brownlow; Chapter 9 Rust-to-resilience: Local Responses to Urban Vulnerabilities in Utica New York Jessica K. Graybill; Chapter 10 The Privilege of Staying Dry: The Impact of Flooding and Racism on the Emergence of the Mexican Ghetto in Austin's Low-Eastside 1880'"1935 Eliot M. Tretter Melissa Adams; Chapter 11 Epilogue Sarah Dooling Gregory Simon;
Part 1 Geographies of Wealth and risk Accumulation: Neoliberal Policy and Resource Instrumentalism; Chapter 1 Cities Nature and Development: The Politics and Production of Urban Vulnerabilities Sarah Dooling Gregory Simon; Chapter 2 Development Risk Momentum and the Ecology of Vulnerability: A Historical'"relational Analysis of the 1991 Oakland Hills Firestorm Gregory Simon; Chapter 3 The Neoliberal Production of Vulnerability and Unequal Risk Timothy W. Collins Anthony M. Jimenez; Chapter 4 The Production of Urban Vulnerability Through Market-based Parks Governance Harold A. Perkins; Part 2 Unanticipated Vulnerabilities: Sustainability Planning Environmental Movements and Activism; Chapter 5 Re-imagining the Local: Scale Race Culture and the Production of Food Vulnerabilities Julian Agyeman Benjamin L. Simons; Chapter 6 Sustainability Planning Ecological Gentrification and the Production of Urban Vulnerabilities Sarah Dooling; Chapter 7 Between Here and There: Mobilizing Urban Vulnerabilities in Climate Camps and Transition Towns Kelvin Mason Mark Whitehead; Part 3 Vulnerabilities in the Urbanizing Context: Cultural and Demographic Transformations; Chapter 8 Co-opting Restoration: Women Voluntarism and Insurgent Performance in Philadelphia Alec Brownlow; Chapter 9 Rust-to-resilience: Local Responses to Urban Vulnerabilities in Utica New York Jessica K. Graybill; Chapter 10 The Privilege of Staying Dry: The Impact of Flooding and Racism on the Emergence of the Mexican Ghetto in Austin's Low-Eastside 1880'"1935 Eliot M. Tretter Melissa Adams; Chapter 11 Epilogue Sarah Dooling Gregory Simon;
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