Disaster Makers

Tackling Unmanaged Growth for Sustainable Futures

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

AvTerry Gibson,Terry (Independent Researcher) Gibson

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Drawing on decades of on-the-ground experience, a strong body of existing research on the social construction of risk, and his own academic research, Terry Gibson demonstrates the transformative potential of current debates around de- and re-growth for disaster studies.Some disasters are highly visible to us all, such as the Covid-19 pandemic or the climate emergency. Many more are hidden, everyday disasters grinding down the lives of the poor and vulnerable. Very few of these disasters just happen. Most are caused by those who create risk faster than they can mop it up, by those who pursue reckless, unmanaged economic growth that demands ever-increasing manufacture, consumption, building, food production, and energy consumption. These are the disaster makers.In this book, Gibson provides a thorough, sophisticated, yet accessible account of who the disaster makers are, what they do, and how we can do things better. Ultimately, Gibson demonstrates the urgency of replacing growth-based economics with a fundamentally different social and economic model. This is more than a dream. As Gibson shows, it becomes a practical possibility the moment enough of us commit to building a movement.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-02-20
Mått136 x 214 x 16 mm
Vikt311 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350430488

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Preface: A Personal Disaster JourneyAcknowledgementsIntroductionSection 1: Unnatural DisastersChapter 1. Encountering DisastersChapter 2: The Risk EquationChapter 3. VulnerabilityChapter 4: HazardsChapter 5. Managing Disasters and Development: The UN FrameworksSection 2: Unmanaged GrowthChapter 6: Adventures Into the AnthropoceneChapter 7. Anthropocene 1. A Very English AnthropoceneChapter 8: Anthropocene 2: ‘Any colour you like as long as it’s black’Chapter 9: The Third Anthropocene – March of the Megacities. Chapter 10: Halfway Towards DisasterSection 3: Sustainable FuturesChapter 11: Identifying the Disaster MakersChapter 12: The Public as ChangemakersChapter 13: Changemaking for the Future we ChooseConclusion: Unnatural Disasters, Convenient UntruthsNotesSelect Bibliography