Risky Cities : : The Physical and Fiscal Nature of Disaster Capitalism / / Albert S. Fu.
Over half the world’s population lives in urban regions, and increasingly disasters are of great concern to city dwellers, policymakers, and builders. However, disaster risk is also of great interest to corporations, financiers, and investors. Risky Cities is a critical examination of global urban d...
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Fu, Albert S., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Risky Cities : The Physical and Fiscal Nature of Disaster Capitalism / Albert S. Fu. New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource (174 p.) : 7 b&w images text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Nature, Society, and Culture Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Living with Disaster and Capitalism -- 2 Sinkholes and the Risky Foundations of Cities -- 3 The Logistical Nightmare of Trash and Urban Nature -- 4 Fire, the Wildland–Urban Interface, and Feedback Loops -- 5 Assessing and Managing Risk -- Conclusion: Regenerative Urbanism -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Over half the world’s population lives in urban regions, and increasingly disasters are of great concern to city dwellers, policymakers, and builders. However, disaster risk is also of great interest to corporations, financiers, and investors. Risky Cities is a critical examination of global urban development, capitalism, and its relationship with environmental hazards. It is about how cities live and profit from the threat of sinkholes, garbage, and fire. Risky Cities is not simply about post-catastrophe profiteering. This book focuses on the way in which disaster capitalism has figured out ways to commodify environmental bads and manage risks. Notably, capitalist city-building results in the physical transformation of nature. This necessitates risk management strategies –such as insurance, environmental assessments, and technocratic mitigation plans. As such capitalists redistribute risk relying on short-term fixes to disaster risk rather than address long-term vulnerabilities. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) Cities and towns. Environmental disasters. Risk management. Urbanization. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. bisacsh urban, urban planning, policymakers, urban policies, disasters, disaster risk, corporations, financiers, critical study, global development, global urban development, capitalism, environment, environmental, cities, sinkholes, garbage, fire, catastrophe, profiteering, disaster capitalism, risk management, commodification, city-building, city planning, nature, insurance, environmental assessments, environmental activist, environmental activism, mitigation, technocratic mitigation, risk redistribution, oil disaster, trash, urban nature, wild fires, risk assessment, urbanism, Regenerative Urbanism, environmental hazards, public policy, environmental crises, environmental conservation, Environmental Policy, Environmental Studies, urban expansion, Urban Studies, Urban Revitalization, waste management, garbage disposal, recycling, sanitation, dumpster, waste disposal, disaster relief, disaster management, swallow hole, sink-hole, limestone, erosion, city management, sewage, disaster survival, urban disaster risk reduction, urban disaster readiness, land slides, urban survival skills, disaster recovery, disaster risk reduction, urban survival, urban environment. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English 9783110993899 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 9783110994810 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 English 9783110993752 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 9783110993738 ZDB-23-DKU Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 9783110766479 https://doi.org/10.36019/9781978820340?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781978820340 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781978820340/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Living with Disaster and Capitalism -- 2 Sinkholes and the Risky Foundations of Cities -- 3 The Logistical Nightmare of Trash and Urban Nature -- 4 Fire, the Wildland–Urban Interface, and Feedback Loops -- 5 Assessing and Managing Risk -- Conclusion: Regenerative Urbanism -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author |
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