Earth Sciences, Geography & Environment Books

Book SynopsisOur politics is intimately linked to the environmental conditions - and crises - of our time. The challenges of sustainability and the discovery of ecological limits to growth are transforming how we understand the core concepts at the heart of political theory. In this essential new textbook, leading political theorist Steve Vanderheiden examines how the concept of sustainability challenges – and is challenged – by eight key social and political ideas, ranging from freedom and equality to democracy and sovereignty. He shows that environmental change will disrupt some of our most cherished ideals, requiring new indicators of progress, new forms of community, and new conceptions of agency and responsibility. He draws on canonical texts, contemporary approaches to environmental political theory, and vivid examples to illustrate how changes in our conceptualization of our social aspirations can inhibit or enable a transition to a just and sustainable society. Vanderheiden masterfully balances crystal clear explanation of the essentials with cutting-edge analysis to produce a book that will be core reading for students of environmental and green political theory everywhere.Trade Review"Steve Vanderheiden’s Environmental Political Theory is a great piece of engaged political theorising on the most important challenge of this age of the Anthropocene: how do we think about and respond to the climate and ecological emergency? He offers an analytically detailed and careful reappraisal of 'progress' and progressive politics for navigating our increasingly turbulent world. A monumental achievement from one of the world's leading EPT scholars."—John Barry, Queen's University Belfast "The book is a triumph: a confident and engaged discussion by a leading environmental theorist at the top of his game. It is by far the best analysis available of the perils and promise of our most cherished political ideals in an age of environmental crises."—Catriona McKinnon, University of Exeter "... highly accessible, impeccably organised and insightful."Environmental Values

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Book SynopsisIs climate catastrophe inevitable? In a world of extreme inequality, rising nationalism and mounting carbon emissions, the future looks gloomy. Yet one group of environmentalists, the ‘ecomodernists’, are optimistic. They argue that technological innovation and universal human development hold the keys to an ecologically vibrant future. However, this perspective, which advocates fighting climate change with all available technologies – including nuclear power, synthetic biology and others not yet invented – is deeply controversial because it rejects the Green movement’s calls for greater harmony with nature. In this book, Jonathan Symons offers a qualified defence of the ecomodernist vision. Ecomodernism, he explains, is neither as radical or reactionary as its critics claim, but belongs in the social democratic tradition, promoting a third way between laissez-faire and anti-capitalism. Critiquing and extending ecomodernist ideas, Symons argues that states should defend against climate threats through transformative investments in technological innovation. A good Anthropocene is still possible – but only if we double down on science and humanism to push beyond the limits to growth.Trade Review‘A valuable and timely contribution to the study of environmentalism. Given the seriousness of global climate change, this book provides a window into how ecomodernism fits within the broader framework of contemporary environmental thought.’Jennifer Moore Bernstein, University of Southern California ‘This book is a much-needed corrective to the misconception of ecomodernism as neoliberal techno-optimism. Symons locates ecomodernism firmly within the tradition and logic of social democracy by advancing its most urgent, practical argument – that state-directed low-carbon innovation must be at the heart of our climate response.’Steve Rayner, University of Oxford‘an upbeat perspective on what might be possible when climate emergency management focuses on state-led innovation and universal development.’ Financial AdviserTable of Contents Table of Contents Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1: The Thirty Years Crisis Chapter 2: Ecomodernism and its Critics Chapter 3: Assessing the Technological Challenge Chapter 4: The Politics of Low-Carbon Innovation Chapter 5: Human Flourishing Amid Climate Harms Chapter 6: Global Social Democracy and Geoengineering Justice Conclusion: Climate and its Metaphors Bibliography

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Book SynopsisCities are raucous, cacophonous, and complex. Many dimensions of life play out and conflict across cities’ intricate landscapes, be they political, cultural, economic, or social. Urban policy makers and analysts often attempt to “cut through the noise” of urban disagreement by emphasizing a dominant lens for understanding the key, central logic of the city. How To Think About Cities sees this tendency to selective vision as misleading and ultimately unjust: cities are many things at once to different people and communities. This book describes the various ways of seeing the functions and landscapes of the city as place frames, and the constant process of negotiating which place frames best explain the city as place-making. Martin and Pierce call for an explicitly hybrid perspective that shifts between many different frames for making sense of cities. This approach highlights how any given stance opens up some lines of inquiry and understanding while closing off others. Thinking of cities as sites of contested perspectives promotes a synthetic approach to urban analysis that emphasizes difference and political possibility. This mosaic view of the city will be a welcome read for those within urban studies, geography, and social sciences exploring the many faces of urban life.Trade Review“We need to embrace cities in all their diversity and complexity while realizing that we can never truly grasp the infinitely radical plurality of urbanism. This is the core of Martin and Pierce’s captivating methodological narrative of place-framing as an analytical and political strategy for the urban age. A delightful book!”Elvin Wyly, University of British Columbia“This book will change how you think about cities and the urban. Martin and Pierce advance place-framing as a deeply compelling approach to studying cities. They draw from classical texts and concepts in urban studies and allied fields to offer a new and highly accessible way to untangle the messiness of the city.”Katherine Hankins, Georgia State University “In How to Think About Cities, Martin and Pierce provide a valuable contribution in reorienting urban analysis in a promising and productive direction. The book should occupy a prominent place in the reading list of every urban scholar, whether novice or established.”Robert W. Lake, Journal of Urban AffairsTable of Contents1. Introduction: Cities are Places 2. City of London: A Machine for Living / The Seat of Wealth 3. Tehran: Islamic Developmentalism / Diverse Cosmopolitanism 4. Worcester: Local Economic Engine / Regional Forest Under Threat 5. Portland: Paradise of Environmentalism / Legacy of Exclusionary Racism 6. Chongqing: International Cyberpunk Marvel / National Policy Innovator 7. Jerusalem: Religious Tourist Destination / Ethno-National Citadel 8. Conclusion: The Impossibilities of Fully Knowing a City

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Book SynopsisWe are witnessing a crisis of liberal democracy. A widespread fear of social decline, rapid globalization and uncontrolled immigration have culminated in a prevailing mood of hostility towards the established order. Confidence in democratic institutions and mainstream political parties is fast eroding, with people increasingly drawn towards the rhetoric of populist demagogues and authoritarian leaders. What are the roots of this revolt against liberalism and how can it be countered? In this new book, the leading Green politician and thinker Ralf Fücks argues that the threat to liberal democracy lies within democracy itself. Democracy is the fundamental guarantor of freedom and it is our own failure to defend it that has led to the encroachment of an illiberal and divisive politics. In a powerful counter, Fücks outlines the foundations for an ambitious democratic renewal: greater investment in the public institutions to create a sense of belonging and political community; a focus on education as the key instrument for social advancement; the promotion of a democratic patriotism based on common political values; a better understanding of how to increase participation in the emerging digital economy; and sustainable innovation that will unleash the creative potential of liberal societies. This robust defense of liberal democracy will be essential reading for anyone concerned about the very real threat faced by our democratic freedoms today and wondering what we can do about it.Table of Contents Contents 1. In place of an introduction: the lie of the land 2. Modern and anti-modern 3. The long view of democracy 4. The left and democracy 5. The rise of the anti-liberals 6. The migration battlefield 7. Dealing with Islam 8. No empathy for freedom – the Germans and Ukraine 9. The Russia complex 10. Modernity and its discontents 11. Ecology and freedom 12. Civilizing capitalism 13. Shaping globalization 14. How we can relaunch the EU 15. What is at stake

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Book SynopsisSustainability is one of the buzzwords of our times and a key imperative for economic growth, technological development, social equity, and environmental quality. But what does it really mean and how is it being implemented around the world? In this clear-eyed book, Maurie Cohen introduces students to the concept of sustainability, tracing its history and application from local land-use practices, construction techniques and reorientation of business models to national and global institutions seeking to foster sustainable practices. Examining sustainable development in scientific, technological, social and political terms, he shows that it remains an elusive concept and evidence of its unambiguous achievements can be difficult to ascertain. Moreover, developed and developing countries have formulated divergent agendas to engage the notion of sustainability, further complicating its application and progress across the world. Innovative and readily accessible to students from a range of disciplines, this primer takes us on a journey to show that sustainability is as much about unchartered waters as it is about formulating answers to urgent global issues.Trade Review�Sustainability�s original impulse�to transform how we live together on this planet�has splintered into a zoo of small-bore activities. Maurie Cohen masterfully organizes this menagerie of interpretations and approaches into an overarching framework that recovers the radical meaning of the challenge.�Paul Raskin, Tellus Institute �This book offers a very accessible introduction to science, policy and practice associated with the broad and complex topic of sustainability. It delineates many central concepts and lines of development with references to relevant events and actors. A particularly strength of the book is that it critically questions the reliability of some well-established assumptions and concepts for fostering a sustainability transition. Accordingly, the book will be very useful as an introduction to sustainability for interdisciplinary audiences.�Doris Fuchs, University of MünsterTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Acronyms and Abbreviations List of Figures, Tables and BoxesChapter 1 What is Sustainability? Chapter 2 The Science of Sustainability Chapter 3 Engineering a More Sustainable Future Chapter 4 Planning Sustainability Transitions Chapter 5 Social Innovation and Sustainability Chapter 6 Toward Post-sustainability? Afterword: Sustainability in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond References Notes Index​

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Book SynopsisAfter the harrowing experience of the pandemic and lockdown, both states and individuals have been searching for ways to exit the crisis, many hoping to return as soon as possible to ‘the world as it was before the pandemic’. But there is another way to learn the lessons of this ordeal: as inhabitants of the earth, we may not be able to exit lockdown so easily after all, since the global health crisis is embedded in another larger and more serious crisis – that brought about by the New Climate Regime. Learning to live in lockdown might be an opportunity to be seized: a dress-rehearsal for the climate mutation, an opportunity to understand at last where we – inhabitants of the earth – live, what kind of place ‘earth’ is and how we will be able to orient ourselves and exist in this world in the years to come. We might finally be able to explore the land in which we live, together with all other living beings, begin to understand the true nature of the climate mutation we are living through and discover what kind of freedom is possible – a freedom differently situated and differently understood. In this sequel to his bestselling book Down to Earth, Bruno Latour provides a compass for this necessary re-orientation of our lives, outlining the metaphysics of confinement and deconfinement with which we will all be obliged to come to terms by the strange times in which we are living.Trade Review"astonishing meditation"New York Times "In After Lockdown, the French philosopher and anthropologist Bruno Latour takes a more radical stance. With the current pandemic we experience a dress-rehearsal for what climate change has in store, he thinks. So, we'd better learn to re-orient ourselves and take stock of our lives. For that, we need a new compass, an entirely different cosmology, he claims – different, that is, from the metaphysics which provides the basic conceptual framework of most modern thought."The Montreal Review "In After Lockdown: A Metamorphosis, Bruno Latour explores how the experience of lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic has led us to better understand our connections with other living beings, in ways that might be conducive to confronting our climate crisis. This book will be of interest to anyone wanting to explore the philosophical meanings of lockdowns, Gaia theories and climate politics."LSE Review of Books "a novel and important contribution"Journal of Ecohumanism"Readers new to Latour will find this book intriguing and relevant, an eminently useful introduction to his approach to social science… [a] provocative and beautiful book…"Social ForcesTable of Contents1. One way of becoming a termite 2. Locked-down in a space that's still pretty vast 3. 'Earth' is a proper noun 4. 'Earth' is feminine, 'Universe' is masculine 5. A whole cascade of engendering troubles 6. 'Here below' – except there is no up above 7. Letting the economy bob to the surface 8. Describing the territory, only, the right way round 9. The unfreezing of the landscape 10. Multiplying the number of mortal bodies 11. The return of ethnogeneses 12. Some pretty strange battles 13. Scattering in all directions 14. A little further reading

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Book SynopsisWhen we imagine the polar regions, we see a largely lifeless world covered in snow and ice where icebergs drift listlessly through frozen waters, like solitary wanderers of the oceans floating aimlessly in total silence. But nothing could be further from the truth. This book takes us into the fascinating world of icebergs and glaciers to discover what they are really like. Through a series of historical vignettes recalling some of the most tragic and most exhilarating encounters between human beings and these gigantic pieces of matter, and through vivid descriptions of their cycles of birth and death, Olivier Remaud shows that these entities are teeming with many forms of life and that there is a deep continuity between iceberg life and human life, a complex web of reciprocal interconnections that can lead from the deadliest to the most vital. And precisely because there is this continuity, icebergs and glaciers tell us something important about life itself – namely, that it thrives in the most unexpected of places, even where there seems to be no life at all. At a time when we are increasingly aware that the melting of ice sheets, glaciers and sea ice is one of the many disastrous consequences of global warming, this beautiful meditation is a poignant reminder of the interconnectedness of all life and the fragility of the Earth’s ecosystems.Trade Review"How can an iceberg be alive? By being perceived as an active partner by other living beings, be they autochthonous peoples from the Far North or scientists, explorers, writers, painters. Leafing through a variety of sensible experiences of these floating mountains, and reflecting poetically on their philosophical implications, Remaud draws a lesson: indifference to the death of glaciers reflects the incapacity of most Modern humans to think themselves as mere parts of a greater whole."—Philippe Descola, author of Beyond Nature and Culture "Invites you to look at the link between humans and nature in a completely new way." —Sally Hayden, The Irish Times "Thinking Like an Iceberg tells a detailed and imaginative story of ice that sees ice as aware of its own existence and fate and its role within human society and history.... As glaciers continue to melt at alarming rates and ever-larger icebergs calve into the ocean, Remaud has created a book that prompts us to contemplate in a new way what it means to lose this shifting, cracking, bubbling and increasingly temporary structure and surface."—Polar Research“To think like an iceberg… is on one level to dispel the myth of Arctic solitude. It is a myth to which western travellers, steeped in images of the sublime, are especially prone. Adrift on an ocean of icebergs, as if in a hall of mirrors, they are inclined to see in their pristine surfaces only endless reflections of themselves. Yet in truth, as Remaud shows, there are no mirrors, nor does nature lie concealed on the other side. It is rather all around us, and we are suspended in its web.”—Tim Ingold, ArticTable of ContentsAcknowledgements The issue Prologue: They are coming! Chapter 1: Through the looking glass Chapter 2: The eye of the glacier Chapter 3. Unexpected lives Chapter 4: Social snow Chapter 5: A less lonely world Chapter 6: Thinking like an iceberg Epilogue: Return to the ocean Notes

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Book SynopsisCovering almost 8 percent of the earth's terrain, lichens are living beings which are familiar to everyone, known to no one. They are one of those organisms that seem to offer nothing to hold our gaze. But the more time we spend with lichens, the more they reveal their beauty, their mysteries and their strange power of attraction. Part-algae and part-fungus, lichens call into question our customary ways of classifying forms of life, and allow us to conceive of an ecology that is no longer based on distinctions between nature and culture, urban and rural, competition and cooperation. The result of several years of investigation carried out on several different continents, this remarkable book offers an original, radical, and, like its subject matter, symbiotic reflection on this common but mostly invisible form of life, blending cultures and disciplines, drawing on biology, ecology, philosophy, literature, poetry, even graphic art. What if lichens were at the heart of some of the most pressing and topical questions of our day? Does the fact that they can live everywhere, even in very harsh environments, that they persist when almost all other traces of life have disappeared, mean that, despite their fragility, lichens are a force of resistance? After reading this book you will never see lichens, or the world, in the same way again.Trade Review"Vincent Zonca has compiled a veritable pot-pourri of sympoietic intimacies. These crinkled expressions of desire and despair creep, slowly and unobtrusively, across every page, even as they breathe the air. Never has a work of literature more closely resembled its subject matter, inspiring wonder in equal measure. Welcome to the world of lichens!"—Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen "[L]yrically-written. . . . there's something new and sparkling every few pages"—Leonardo ReviewsTable of ContentsIllustrations ix Acknowledgments xiii Preface by Emanuele Coccia xiv Part 1 First Contacts 1 Origins 1 Winters 2 Weeds 3 A Scientific Challenge: Remaining or Rising in the Ranks 12 Customs and Beliefs 22 Lichen Erotics 34 Part 2 To Describe, Name, Represent 45 A Challenge to Representation 45 Music = Mushroom 72 The Far East, Mosses, and Wabi-Sabi 77 Part 3 Ecopoetics: Life Force and Resistance 91 Ruderal 91 Rousseauist Walks 92 Sentinel Species 108 "Lichens of sunlight and mucus of azure" 112 "Sbarbarian" Glowworm 116 Ecological Forewarnings 124 Fragility, Resistance 132 Contemporary "Poethics" 134 "Insurrection of the Humble" 156 Micro-habitats 166 Part 4 Toward a Symbiotic Way of Thought 173 The Politics of Lichen: at the Origins of Symbiosis 175 Chimeras, Vampires, and Other Common Monsters 192 A "Third Place" 197 Cohabitation 210 Envoi: Sporules 215 Notes 220 Index of Names 255 Index of Lichens 260

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Book SynopsisFrom the Sivens forest in France to the Hambach forest in Germany, from the Broadback forest in Canada to the rainforests of Borneo, something has shifted in these wild spaces over the last decade or two. People have begun to inhabit the forests, oppose the loggers and use their bodies as shields, motivated by the determination to resist the lethal ecosystem of commercial exploitation. Forests have become a battleground in the struggle between groups with fundamentally divergent aims and objectives. Forests are made up of insurgents. Jean-Baptiste Vidalou went to see some of these forests and meet those who are defending them: he discovered a completely different way of understanding the world, sharply opposed to the mentality of planners who see forests as just one more territory to be managed. Here he recounts this encounter, relays what these forest peoples and struggles convey, not to offer any recipes or ready-made solutions to the crises of our times but to be the forest, like a force that grows, stem by stem, leaf by leaf, slowly becoming ungovernable.Trade ReviewSelected by Mongabay as one of 10 notable books on conservation and the environment published in 2023 “Jean-Baptiste Vidalou investigates the rise of people fighting for forests around the world… he bristles at the idea that something as wild and unruly as a forest needs to be measured to have value… He also reflects on what he sees as the limitations of the way we currently approach forests, and in doing so, finds a mirror for human society at large.”—Mongabay "We are Forests is the outstanding implementation of a lyrical counter-expertise. Jean-Baptiste Vidalou explains how a political struggle is required to truly understand all the components at stake in our relationship to the environment. If we don’t defend a territory, a forest or a lake, we simply see the proposed changes by engineers, administrations and experts as necessary 'progress', smart management, without being sensitive to the ecological devastation at play."—Frédéric Neyrat, University of Wisconsin-Madison "If you, like me, doubt the only way we can see nature is through the data we so obsessively collect and pore over – trying to detect all that which we cannot see – and wonder if ours is just a newer form of an older, discredited interventionism; or, if, in fact you have pondered about why we still stumble for some kind of 'complete picture' of nature, then this book is for you."—EcosTable of Contents1 Where We Live, Where We Struggle2 A Country Like No Other3 A Little History of the Map4 Friction on the Ground5 Welcome to the Park!6 A Genealogy of Territorial Planning7 Devastating Accounting8 The Physiocrats and the War on the Commons9 All That Is Solid Must Be Liquidated10 Total Calculation11 From Encampment to Logistics12 Forests Versus Wood-Energy13 Bringing the Outside In14 Returning to Forests, Becoming a Secessionist15 The New Nomos of the EarthReferencesNotes

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Book SynopsisChina’s huge environmental challenges affect not only the health and well-being of China but the very future of the planet. In this fully revised and updated third edition of her acclaimed book, noted scholar of Chinese environmentalism Judith Shapiro explores China’s struggle to achieve the ‘ecological civilization’ championed by Xi Jinping since 2017. Drawing on six core analytical concepts - globalization, governance, national identity, civil society, environmental justice, and extractivism - Shapiro ably demonstrates the multifaceted and complex nature of this struggle. China’s precipitous economic growth has carried a heavy cost in air and water pollution, soil contamination, and loss of habitat for the biodiversity upon which human life depends. But its quest for sustainability has been further hampered by authoritarian governance patterns, soaring middle class consumption, the need to provide employment and safety nets for a population of more than one billion, and a manufacturing sector thirsty to secure global resources and sell to new markets. Transformation to a more sustainable development model is still possible. But, as Shapiro persuasively argues, this will require humility, creativity, and a rejection of business as usual. China – and the planet – are at a pivotal moment.Trade Review"The third edition of China’s Environmental Challenges remains the go-to text for Chinese environmental studies. An excellent guide, the reader will find historical depth, cultural nuance, humanistic sensitivity, global relevance, critical timeliness, and conceptual clarity all in one place."Yifei Li, NYU ShanghaiTable of ContentsMapChronologyPrefaceAcknowledgments and Note to the Third Edition1. The Big Picture2. Globalization and Other Drivers and Trends3. State-led Environmentalism 4. Sustainable Development and National Identity5. Public Participation and Civil Society6. Environmental Justice and the Displacement of Environmental Harm7. Extractivism and the Climate Crisis8. Prospects for the FutureReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisOn the Origin of Species outlines Charles Darwin's world-changing theory that life on Earth had not been brought into being by a creator, but had arisen from a single common ancestor and had evolved over time through the process of natural selection. This beautiful Macmillan Collector's Library edition of On the Origin of Species is complete and unabridged, and features an afterword by Oliver Francis. Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure.Received with both enthusiasm and hostility on its publication, it triggered a seismic shift in our understanding of humanity's place in the natural world. It is not only a brilliant work of science but also a clear, vivid, sometimes moving piece of popular writing that reflects both Darwin's genius and his boundless enthusiasm for our planet and its species.

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Book Synopsis"Seeds of Resistance is a wake-up call. With vivid and memorable stories, Mark Schapiro tells us how seeds are at the frontlines of our epic battle for healthy food.” —Alice Waters, founder of Chez Panisse and the Edible Schoolyard Three-quarters of the seed varieties on Earth in 1900 were driven to extinction by 2015. In Seeds of Resistance: The Fight for Food Diversity on Our Climate-Ravaged Planet, investigative journalist Mark Schapiro takes us to the frontlines of the struggle over the seeds that remain—a struggle with some of the world’s biggest agri-chemical companies that will determine the long-term security of our food supply. His investigation unravels the stories of seed survival strategies and why it matters that more than half of all commercially traded seeds are under the control of three multinational agri-chemical companies—producing chemical dependent uniform seeds just as climate change is profoundly altering the conditions for growing food. And he dives deep into the growing movement in the United States and around the world to defy these trends, and assert autonomy over locally evolved seeds that are, by contrast, showing high levels of resilience to the onrushing impacts of climate change. He probes into the implications for our health and for the Earth’s ecological health, of patented seeds, and the companies that have turned them, and the chemicals they require to survive, into one of the world’s most valuable commodities. Schapiro, also a lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, applies his investigative and storytelling skills to this riveting narrative, from the environmentally stressed fields of the American Midwest and California’s Central Valley to the unexpected centers of climate-resilient seed diversity in the arid, war-torn fields of Syria and Iraq, the mountains of southern Mexico and Latin America, and the lands of indigenous food cultivators in the American Southwest and Northwest. There, Native American communities are seeing increasing interest in their ability to grow food in shifting conditions over thousands of years. Newly updated and available for the first time in paperback, Seeds of Resistance gives new meaning to the term ‘farm to table’ by unearthing the largely hidden backstory to the first ingredient in that journey, the seed. Trade Review“Seeds of Resistance is a wake-up call. With vivid and memorable stories, Mark Schapiro tells us how seeds are at the frontlines of our epic battle for healthy food.” —Alice Waters, founder of Chez Panisse and the Edible Schoolyard “At the bottom of it all lies the seed: who controls it, who ‘owns’ it, who develops it, who plants and nourishes it. As Mark Schapiro so vividly and compellingly writes: Save the seed, and you save the planet. Let others control it, and they control everything. For real.” —Mark Bittman, author of How to Grill Everything and A Bone to Pick: The Good and Bad News About Food “If you like food and want to keep eating it, Seeds of Resistance tells a story you should know about. Over the next ten years and beyond, humanity is going to need seeds that can produce food even as global warming makes heat waves, droughts, and downpours increasingly worse. Those seeds are out there, Mark Schapiro’s globe-straddling reporting shows, championed by indigenous peoples, independent scientists, and small-scale farmers. But the three mega-corporations that are attempting to monopolize the world’s seed supply have a very different agenda. I won’t reveal how the story ends, except to say that you, dear reader, are part of it.” —Mark Hertsgaard, author of Hot and Earth Odyssey, and environment correspondent for The Nation

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Book SynopsisExamines the complex ecology of quasi-public and privatized institutions that mobilize and administer many of the political, administrative, and fiscal resources of today’s metropolitan regionsIn recent decades metropolitan regions in the United States have witnessed the rise of multitudes of “shadow governments” that often supersede or replace functions traditionally associated with municipalities and other local governments inherited from the urban past. Shadow governments take many forms, ranging from billion-dollar special authorities that span entire urban regions, to public–private partnerships and special districts created to accomplish particular tasks, to privatized gated communities, to neighborhood organizations empowered to receive private and public funds. They finance and administer public services ranging from the prosaic (garbage collection and water utilities) to the transformative (economic development and infrastructure). Private Metropolis demonstrates that this complex ecosystem of local governance has compromised and even eclipsed democratic processes by moving important policy decisions out of public sight. The quasi-public institutions of urban governance generally escape the budgetary and statutory restraints imposed on traditional local governments and protect policy decisions from the limitations and vagaries of electoral politics. Moving major policy decisions into a privatized and corporatized realm facilitates efficiency and speed, but at the cost of democratic oversight. Increasingly, the urban electorate is left debating symbolic issues only tangentially connected to the actual distribution of the resources that affect people’s lives. The essays in Private Metropolis grapple with the difficult and timely questions that arise from this new ecology of governance: What are the consequences of the proliferation of special authorities, privatized governments, and public–private arrangements? Is the trade-off between democratic accountability and efficiency worth it? Has the public sector, with its messiness and inefficiencies—but also its checks and balances—ceded too much power to these new institutions? By examining such questions, this book provokes a long-overdue debate about the future of urban governance.Contributors: Douglas Cantor, California State U, Long Beach; Ellen Dannin, Pennsylvania State U; Jameson W. Doig, Princeton U; Mary Donoghue; Peter Eisinger, New School; Steven P. Erie, U of California, San Diego; Rebecca Hendrick, U of Illinois at Chicago; Sara Hinkley, U of California, Berkeley; Amanda Kass, U of Illinois at Chicago; Scott A. MacKenzie, U of California, Davis; David C. Perry, U of Illinois at Chicago; James M. Smith, U of Indiana South Bend; Shu Wang, Michigan State U; Rachel Weber, U of Illinois at Chicago.Trade Review "A valuable resource in graduate courses in urban politics and policy."—Journal of Urban Affairs Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction: Shadow Governments and the Remaking of the American Local StateDennis R. Judd, Evan McKenzie, and Alba AlexanderPart I. The Eclipse of the (Municipal) State1. City Building Capacity and Special-Purpose Authorities: Institutions, Interests, and the Local StateJames M. Smith2. Phantom Governments: Multiple Function Special Districts as Substitutes for MunicipalitiesEvan McKenzie3. Governing Detroit: The Withering of the (Municipal) StatePeter EisingerPart II. The Evolving Role of Public-Private Authorities4. Transportation Empires in the New York and Los Angeles Regions: From the Old to the New Politics of Governance and DevelopmentSteven P. Erie, Scott MacKenzie, and Jameson W. Doig5. Whetting Their Appetites: Privatization Schemes and the Case of WaterEllen Dannin and Douglas Cantor6. The Role of the State in Public-Private Initiatives: Lessons from Great BritainAlba AlexanderPart III. The Fiscal Politics of the New American Local State7. Financing Urban Infrastructure (and Services) under the New Normal: A Look at Special AssessmentsShu Wang and Rebecca Hendrick8. Devolution and Debt: Financing Public Facilities in an Age of AusterityRachel Weber, Amanda Kass, and Sara HinkleyPart IV. Bringing the (Public) State Back In9. Building the Public City, PrivatelyDavid Perry and Mary Donoghue10. The Fate of the Public Realm: ConclusionsDennis R. Judd, Evan McKenzie, and Alba Alexander ContributorsIndex

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Book SynopsisClimate change is one of the most widely debated and worrisome topics of our time. As environmental changes become more prevalent, there has been evidence to suggest that there is a correlation between the environment and a substantial increase of infectious diseases and viruses around the globe.Examining the Role of Environmental Change on Emerging Infectious Diseases and Pandemics investigates the impact of climate change in relation to the emergence and spread of global diseases. Highlighting epidemiological factors and policies to govern epidemics and pandemics, this publication is a critical reference source for medical professionals, students, environmental scientists, advocates, policy makers, academics, and researchers.

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Book SynopsisBusinesses working under green finance models consider the potential environmental impact in investment and financing decisions and merge the potential return, risk, and cost correlated with environmental conditions into day-to-day financial business. Under this model, the ecological environment and sustainable development of society is observed and promoted.Green Finance for Sustainable Global Growth is an essential reference source that discusses emerging financial models that focus on sustainable development and environmental protection including developing trends in green finance, internet finance, and sustainable finance. Featuring research on topics such as competitive financing, supply chain management, and financial law, this book is ideally designed for accountants, financial managers, professionals, academicians, researchers, and students seeking coverage on the sustainable development of the finance industry.

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Book Synopsis"The Green New Deal is the most exciting idea in American politics for decades––and as theses powerful posters make clear, it’s grabbed the attention not just of policy wonks but of artists who can translate these ideas into images that move us.”––Bill McKibben, bestselling author of Deep Economy Posters with a purpose. A clarion call for our time, the Green New Deal is a bold and far-reaching legislative plan to fight climate change, create millions of good-paying jobs, promote economic and racial equality, and so much more. In its ambition, it’s a vision that mirrors President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, which helped pull the country out of the Great Depression. And just as WPA artists mustered support for the New Deal with their work, here are 50 powerful posters to champion the Green New Deal. The posters are original, colorful, and visually striking, with text on the back that explains each issue and how the Green New Deal seeks to address it. Perforated pages make them easy to tear out and hang or use as signs at marches and demonstrations, because it’s not just a book to flip through. Climate change affects everything: the air we breath, the water we drink, the food we eat, the places we call home, and the people we love. And the time to act on it is now.

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Book SynopsisFifty years ago Enoch Powell made national headlines with his 'Rivers of Blood' speech, warning of an immigrant invasion in the once respectable streets of Wolverhampton. This local fixation brought the Black Country town into the national spotlight, yet Powell's unstable relationship with Wolverhampton has since been overlooked. Drawing from interviews and archival material, this book offers a rich local history through which to investigate the speech, bringing to life the racialised dynamics of space during a critical moment in British history. What was going on beneath the surface in Wolverhampton and how did Powell's constituents respond to this dramatic moment? The research traces the ways in which Powell's words reinvented the town and uncovers highly contested local responses. While Powell left Wolverhampton in 1974, the book returns to the city to explore the collective memories of the speech which continue to reverberate. In a contemporary period of new crisis and national divisions, revisiting the shadow of Powell allows us to reflect on racism and resistance from 1968 to today.Trade Review‘Enoch Powell made his notorious Rivers of Blood speech in the Midland Hotel in Birmingham on 20 April, 1968. At the time he was the Conservative MP for the constituency of Wolverhampton South West. In her book In the Shadow of Enoch Powell Shirin Hirsch examines the impact of Powell’s speech in the Wolverhampton of 1968 and analyses its significance 50 years later. Hirsch draws on archival material as well as her own contemporary interviews.’Vivek Lehal, Socialist Review, Vol. 444 (March 2019)As the extensive list of secondary sources in the book’s bibliography suggests, Enoch Powellhas been the subject of considerable research. Shirin Hirsch’s short but powerful bookstands out by offering insight into the experience of those both facing and fighting theramifications of Powell’s speech and the attitudes it represented. Hirsch’s masterful commandof contemporary newspapers and oral accounts presents the reader with an excellentperception of the prevailing societal ideas.Midland History -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 ‘The Commonwealth is much too common for me’: another 19682 The world in Wolverhampton3 Reverberations from ‘Rivers of Blood’4 Resistance in the schools and on the buses5 ‘A monstrous reputation’: remembering Enoch PowellConclusionIndex

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Book SynopsisThis book intervenes in the immigration debate, showing how moving away from a racialized local/ migrant dichotomy can help to unite people on the basis of their common humanity. Drawing on over one hundred stories and eight years of research in a provincial English city, Rogaly asks what that city (and indeed England as a whole) stands for in the Brexit era. Stories from the city’s homes and streets, and from its warehouse and food factory workplaces, challenge middle-class condescension towards working-class cultures. They also reveal a non-elite cosmopolitanism, which contrasts with the more familiar association of cosmopolitanism with elites. The book combines critique with resources for hope. It is aimed at general readers as well as students and lecturers in geography, sociology, migration studies and oral history.Trade Review'Stories from a migrant city is a beautifully written book mapping the consolidation of a complex culture of multi-ethnic working class cosmopolitanism amid the rise of reactionary populisms.Drawing on a decade of painstaking research on local workplaces and neighbourhoods, Rogaly uncovers the shared histories of mobility and fixity as well as how they continue to be disrupted by class inequalities and racisms. He should be applauded for not only producing an analytically sophisticated book but one which provides us with some of the resources of hope that might one day help to plot a path towards a more open and democratic future for all.'Professor Satnam Virdee, University of Glasgow 'A powerful, thoughtful and much needed contribution'Fatima Manji, Correspondent, Channel 4 News 'In the face of the most ugly uses of ‘place’ as a code for racialised exclusivity, this poignant and necessary book encourages us to think more expansively - of varieties of inclusion and exclusion, of unexpected conviviality and cosmopolitanism from below, of tactics of racial capitalism that set us against each other and spaces of imagination that can bring us together. All in the form of a kind of love-song to... Peterborough.'Professor Gargi Bhattacharyya, University of East London'In this extraordinary book Ben Rogaly shows us that we need to rethink who is considered a ‘migrant’ and who is a ‘local.’ The urgent lesson contained in these pages is that any step towards challenging the racism that distorts and confines the immigration debate needs to listen out for what is emerging in the ordinary life of cosmopolitanism from the bottom-up.'Professor Les Back, Goldsmiths, University of London'Ben Rogaly succeeds in dissolving the distinction between ‘local’ and ‘migrant’ to illuminate everyday forms of working-class multicultural interaction and conviviality. A ‘must-read’ book in an age of Brexit uncertainty, changing global macro-economic processes and the rise of nationalist nostalgia.'Professor Anoop Nayak, Newcastle University'This book is for anyone interested in British identity. You don’t need to have spent your Saturdays as a teenager hanging around the Queensgate shopping centre to find it informative and compelling. But Rogaly also resists using the city merely as a way to explain something bigger, as a stand-in for other provincial places.In Stories From a Migrant City, Peterborough exists, in and of itself, as a distinct place. We need more books that do the same for other cities and towns in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the world.'Charlotte L. Riley, New Humanist'Rogaly’s Stories from a Migrant City challenges contemporary understandings of immigrant inclusion and exclusion and xenophobic antipathy in the aftermath of Brexit. Rogaly (Univ. of Sussex, UK) criticizes common analyses of Brexit as a clash between open-minded, cosmopolitan elites and racist, native-born, working-class whites. Instead, using a politics of place in Peterborough (a small, provincial city outside of London), coupled with illuminating oral history data drawn from "locals," "newcomers," "immigrants," and "elites," he reveals that the politics that put Brexit into play are more complicated than the superficial images presented in the media and in much academic discourse. Rogaly demonstrates that cosmopolitanism is regularly practiced in the everyday lives of Peterborough’s working- and middle-class inhabitants. Late-stage capitalism and neoliberalism have put everything in flux so that the terms "native" and "migrant" do not adequately reflect who lives in Britain and whose "authentic" British lifestyle is at stake from the promises and threats of Brexit. Disruption of continuity of place magnifies changes, making them seem more threatening to the national and local projects. Rogaly provides glimmers of hope highlighting historical moments of opportunities for unity.--R. A. Harper, York CollegeSumming Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty; professionals.Reprinted with permission from Choice Reviews. All rights reserved. Copyright by the American Library Association. -- .Table of Contents1 Introduction: Non-elite cosmopolitanism in the Brexit era2 ‘India’s my heart, and I know I’m an Indian’: histories of mobility and fixity3 ‘If not you, they can get ten different workers in your place’: racial capitalism and workplace resistance 4 ‘We’re not just guardians of the area but of the whole city’: urban citizenship struggles and the racialised outsider5 ‘And then we just let our creativity take over’: cultural production in a provincial city6 Conclusion: the immigration debate and common anger in dangerous timesAcknowledgements Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking volume brings together scholars from across the globe to discuss the infrastructure, energy, housing, safety and sustainability of African cities, as seen through local narratives of residents. Drawing on a variety of fields and extensive first-hand research, the contributions offer a fresh perspective on some of the most pressing issues confronting urban Africa in the twenty-first century.At a time when the future of the region as a whole will be determined in large part by its cities, the implications of these developments are profound. With case studies from cities in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Niger, Nigeria, South Africa and Tanzania, this volume explores how the rapid growth of African cities is reconfiguring the relationship between urban social life and its built forms. While the most visible transformations in cities today can be seen as infrastructural, these manifestations are cultural as well as material, reflecting the different ways in which the city is rationalised, economised and governed.How can we ‘see like a city’ in twenty-first-century Africa, understanding the urban present to shape its future? This is the central question posed throughout this volume, with a practical focus on how academics, local decision makers and international practitioners can collaborate to meet the challenge of rapid growth, environmental pressures and resource gaps.This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 11, Sustainable cities and communitiesTable of Contents1 Introduction: urban presence and uncertain futures in African cities – Michael Keith with Andreza Aruska de Souza Santos2 At the city edge: situating peripheries research in South Africa and Ethiopia – Paula Meth, Alison Todes, Sarah Charlton, Tatenda Mukwedeya, Jennifer Houghton, Tom Goodfellow, Metadel Sileshi Belihu, Zhengli Huang, Divine Mawuli Asafo, Sibongile Buthelezi and Fikile Masikane3 Uncertain pasts and risk-sensitive futures in sub-Saharan urban transformation – Mark Pelling, Alejandro Barcena, Hayley Leck, Ibidun Adelekan, David Dodman, Hamadou Issaka, Cassidy Johnson, Mtafu Manda, Blessing Mberu, Ezebunwa Nwokocha, Emmanuel Osuteye and Soumana Boubacar4 Beyond self-help: learning from communities in informal settlements in Durban, South Africa – Maria Christina Georgiadou and Claudia Loggia5 Turning livelihood to rubbish? The politics of value and valuation in South Africa’s urban waste sector – Henrik Ernstson, Mary Lawhon, Anesu Makina, Nate Millington, Kathleen Stokes and Erik Swyngedouw6 ‘Candles are not bright enough’: inclusive urban energy transformations in spaces of urban inequality? – Federico Caprotti, Jon Phillips, Saska Petrova, Stefan Bouzarovski, Stephen Essex, Jiska de Groot, Lucy Baker, Yachika Reddy and Peta Wolpe7 Risky urban futures: the bridge, the fund and insurance in Dar es Salaam – Irmelin Joelsson8 Conclusion: from an ‘infrastructural turn’ to the platform logics of logistics – Michael Keith with Andreza Aruska de Souza SantosIndex

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Book SynopsisBuilding on an abolitionist perspective, this book offers an essential critique of migration and border policies, unsettling the distinction between migrants and citizens. This is the only book that brings together carceral abolitionist debates and critical migration literature. It explores the multiplication of modes of migration confinement and detention in Europe, examining how these are justified in the name of migrants’ protection. It argues that the collective memory of past struggles has partly informed current solidarity movements in support of migrants. A grounded critique of migration policies involves challenging the idea that migrants’ rights go to the detriment of citizens. An abolitionist approach to borders entails situating the right to mobility as part of struggle for the commons. Trade Review'Martina Tazzioli’s book challenges us to connect struggles for the freedom of movement to commoning practices and abolitionist worlding projects, to decompartmentalise migration, border and refugee studies. To build these transversal alliances, Tazzioli grounds border abolitionism in migrants’ escapes, autonomous mobilities and spaces, and “free spots,” beginning not from state enclosure projects, but from actually existing abolitionist practices. Border abolitionism calls on us to do more than document the needless drownings, wasted times and choked lives or the injustices of contemporary migration control regimes. To practices border abolition, we must learn from migrants how to live and build institutions otherwise.'Lauren Martin, Associate Professor of Political Geography, Durham UniversityBorder abolitionism is an intellectually ambitious, creative, and original book, linking critical border, migration, and refugee studies to the contemporary insights of carceral abolitionism. Tazzioli starts not from normative abstractions but instead from the material and practical facts of migration and the confinement continuum that chokes migrants’ and refugees’ projects both to move across borders and then to stay and re-make their lives. This book’s refreshingly innovative intervention thus advances an idea of abolition that extends far beyond the border, in order to understand the struggles of migrants and citizens together. It will have a lasting impact on scholarship and activism.Nicholas De Genova, editor of The Borders of “Europe”: Autonomy of Migration, Tactics of Bordering -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 The zero-sum rights game: border abolitionism as an analytical gaze2 ‘Confine to protect’: hybrid spaces of migration containment3 Participatory confinement: extractive humanitarianism and asylum seekers’ unpaid labour4 Towards a genealogy of migrant struggles and border violence5 A history of mountain runaways and rescue: migrants at the Alpine borderConclusion

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Book SynopsisThis is a story of hope in the face of widespread consternation over the global climate crisis. For many people concerned about global warming, the 2018 vote by UK parliamentarians to proceed with the plans for a third runway at Heathrow Airport was a devastating blow. Aviation was predicted to make up some 25% of the UK’s carbon emissions by 2050 and so the decision seemed to fly in the face of the UK’s commitment to be a climate leader.Can the UK expand Heathrow airport, bringing in 700 extra planes a day, and still stay within ambitious carbon budgets? One legal case sought to answer this question. Campaigning lawyers argued that plans for a third runway at one of the world’s busiest airports would jeopardise the UK’s ability to meet its commitments under the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. This book traces the dramatic story of how the case was prepared - and why international aviation has for so long avoided meaningful limits on its expansion.Trade Review'The long, bitter battle to stop Heathrow airport growing has changed the way we think about climate change. This legal and social thriller tells the most important story of the age and gives heart to all communities fighting dangerous developments.'John Vidal, former Guardian environment editor'The climate movement would do well to spend as much time interrogating its successes as well as its failures - something Hicks does brilliantly here. An important contribution to the body of evidence on what works, and why, when it comes to campaigning on the climate crisis.'Leo Murray, co-founder and director of innovation at climate charity Possible 'This is a fascinating and readable book from someone who has closely followed the twists and turns of the legal challenge against expanding Heathrow. Coming at a time when the government is all too keen to rely on technological fixes for the sector’s climate responsibilities instead of addressing the demand for flying fuelled by tax breaks on aviation, the book sets out what’s at stake and what to expect next in the iconic climate battle of our time.'Jenny Bates, Friends of the Earth'The third runway at Heathrow is one of the toughest tests of the UK's climate commitments. This book unpacks the law, science and politics of the case in a clear and compelling way. Essential reading.'Megan Darby, editor of Climate Home News'Hicks does an excellent job of setting out why and how aviation found itself so elevated, why it can’t be ignored, and the various ways that it can be addressed. What’s particularly useful is to see how the totemic Heathrow case, despite being an unresolved story, has already shaped legal challenges to infrastructure in several ways.'Jeremy Williams, The Earthbound Report'Hicks’ blend of legal analysis with first-hand interviews with residents makes for an illuminating and engaging account of the case and the wider difficulties of restricting aviation expansion'Christopher Shaw, LSE Review of Books -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction1 Building the UK’s climate change framework2 The story of Heathrow expansion3 Paris’ day in court4 Eminently fixable5 Lose the battle, win the warConclusionReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisDining out used to be considered exceptional. However, the Food Standards Authority reported that in 2014, one meal in six was eaten away from home in Britain. Previously considered a necessary substitute for an inability to obtain a meal in a family home, dining out has become a popular recreational activity for a majority of the population, offering pleasure as well as refreshment.Based on a major mixed-methods research project on dining out in England, this book offers a unique comparison of the social differences between London, Bristol and Preston from 1995 to 2015, charting the dynamic relationship between eating in and eating out. Addressing topics such as the changing domestic divisions of labour around food preparation, the variety of culinary experience for different sections of the population, and class differences in taste and the pleasures and satisfactions associated with dining out, the authors explore how the practice has evolved across the three cities.Trade Review'This is a remarkable book that will be of wide interest to sociologists of consumption and scholars of food studies more generally. Not only is it rare to undertake a national study of eating out in commercial establishments and friends'/relatives' houses, but it is probably without precedent to repeat such a study after an interval of twenty years—between 1995 and 2015 ... The book fills a large gap in the sociology of eating out and thus makes an extremely important contribution to the field. By documenting a central social activity in both socio-political space and over time, the authors have created a very valuable resource that will be widely consulted in years to come.'British Journal of Sociology'This is an exquisitely detailed and deliberate sociology of the ordinary restaurant meal and dinner with friends … It is the perfect book to teach with and I will do so.'Contemporary Sociology -- .Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction1 Dining out2 Method and contextPart II: Familiarisation3 Patterns of dining out4 The meaning of eating outPart III: Informalisation5 Food at home6 Domestic hospitality7 Restaurant performances8 Organising eatingPart IV: Diversification9 Regard for variety10 Aesthetics, enthusiasm and culinary omnivorousness11 Landscape of varietyPart V: Continuity and change12 The practice of eating out13 Explaining continuity and changeIndex

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Book SynopsisWhat role does physical and virtual space play in gender-based violence (GBV)? Experts from the Global North and South use wide-ranging case studies - from public harassment in India and Kenya to harassment on Twitter - to examine how spaces can facilitate or prevent GBV and showcase strategies for prevention and intervention. Students and academics from a range of disciplines will discover how existing research connects with practice and policy developments, the current gaps in research and a future agenda for GBV studies.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Hannah Bows and Bianca Fileborn Part 1: Gender-Based Violence in Urban and Community Spaces 1. Gender-Based Violence and Urban Spaces: From Security to Self-Determination – Insights from the Italian Debate - Giada Bonu, Chiara Belingardi, Federica Castelli and Serena Olcuire 2. ‘Everywhere’ or ‘Over There’? Managing and Spatializing the Perceived Risks of Gender-Based Violence on a Girls’ Night Out - Emily Nicholls 3. Internal Homelessness and Hiraeth: Boys’ Spatial Journeys Between Childhood Domestic Abuse and On-Road - Jade Levell 4. Using Community Asset Mapping to Understand Neighbourhood-Level Variation in the Predictors of Domestic Abuse - Ruth Weir Part 2: Gender-Based Violence in ‘Local-Level’ and Transitionary Spaces, from Public Transport to Rural and Digital Spaces 5. Sexual Violence on Public Transport: Applying the Whole-Journey Approach to Assess Women Students’ Victimization in Paris and the Île-de-France Region - Hugo d’Arbois de Jubainville 6. Woman Abuse in Rural Places: Towards a Spatial Understanding - Walter DeKeseredy 7. Algorithmic Bias in Digital Space: Twitter’s Complicity in Gender-Based Violence - Cat Morgan and Sarah Hewitt Part 3: Transnational and Political Spaces 8. Not the Wild West: Femonationalism, Gendered Security Regimes and Brexit - Alexandra Fanghanel 9. Transnational Regimes of Family Violence: When Violence Against Women Crosses Borders - Anja Bredal 10. Between NGO-ization and Militarization: Women’s Rights in Fragile Geographies of Niger - Kristine Anderson Part 4: Institutional Spaces 11. Neither Seen Nor Heard: State-Sanctioned Violence Against Women Prisoners in ‘Australia’ - Debbie Kilroy, Tabitha Lean and Suzi Quixley 12. ‘There Is Always a Reason for the Beatings’: Interrogating the Reproduction of Gender-Based Violence Within Private and Public Spaces - Haje Keli Part 5: Space, Place and ‘Justice’ 13. Adaptations to Sexual Violence: Reduced Access to Opportunity Structures by Women Victimized by Sexual Abuse and Harassment - Suzanne Goodney Lea, Elsa D’Silva and Jane Anyango 14. ‘It’s Not Your Fault’: Place, Promises to the Future and Honouring the Memory of Eurydice Dixon - Claire Loughnan 15. Resisting Violence Through the Arts: Theatre and Poetry as Spaces for Speaking Out and Seeking Change - Amelia Walker and Corinna Di Niro

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Book SynopsisProviding a much-needed perspective on exclusion and discrimination, this book offers a distinct spatial approach to the topic of hate studies. Of interest to academics and students of human geography, criminology, sociology and beyond, the book highlights enduring, diverse and uneven experiences of hate in contemporary society. The collection explores the intersecting experiences of those targeted on the basis of assumed and historically marginalized identities. It illustrates the role of specific spaces and places in shaping hate, why space matters for how hate is encountered and the importance of space in challenging cultures of hate. This analysis of who is able to use or abuse space offers a novel insight into discourses of hate and lived experiences of victimization.Table of Contents1. Introducing Landscapes of Hate - Edward Hall, John Clayton and Catherine Donovan 2. Examining the Contours of Hate: A Critical Hate Studies Analysis - Zoë James and Katie McBride 3. Hiding the Harm? An Argument against Misogyny Hate Crime - Fiona Vera-Gray and Bianca Fileborn 4. Constructing Britain’s Hated Landscapes: The Linguistic and Ideological Construction of Toxteth - Alice Butler-Warke 5. Negotiating Landscapes of (Un)safety: Atmospheres and Ambivalence in Female Students’ Everyday Geographies - Matthew Durey, Nicola Roberts and Catherine Donovan 6. Becoming Visible, Becoming Vulnerable? Bodies, Material Spaces and Affective Economies of Hate - John Clayton, Catherine Donovan and Stephen Macdonald 7. The Role of Space and Place in Learning Disabled People’s Experiences of Disablist Violence - Ellen Daly and Olivia Smith 8. Hostility, Hate and Humiliation: Disability Hate Crime on UK Public Transport - David Wilkin 9. Safe Spaces or Spaces of Control? Racial Tensions at Predominantly White Institutions - Denise Goerisch 10. ‘It’s Not Hate to … [Say] That Gay Sex Leads to Hell’: Contesting Hate, Reiterating Heteronormativities - Kath Browne and Catherine Jean Nash 11. Speaking Back and Seeing Beyond the Landscapes of Hate - Rick Bowler and Amina Razak 12. Rethinking Responses To Hate: Towards a Socio-ecological Approach - Edward Hall  13. Afterword: Spatializing Hate: Relational, Intersectional and Emotional Approaches - Peter Hopkins

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Book SynopsisOver the past decades the nation state lost its political primacy by processes of devolution, Europeanisation and globalisation, which in turn enhanced municipal autonomy. Why do some cities seek to sidestep the state and widen their sphere of action? Bridging political geography, local politics and urban sociology, this book gives a new perspective on the state’s weakening authority and the parallel rise of cities as political actors. The author considers the tensions between central states and European cities, giving a new perspective to students and researchers in the social sciences.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Ebbs and Flows of Cities as Political Actors 3. The Persistence of Urban Identity in the Global World 4. Fleeing the State 5. The Municipalisation of the European Political Space 6. Civitas Activa: The Mobilising Potential of Cities 7. A Municipal Way Out?

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Book SynopsisThe subdiscipline of economic geography has a long and varied history, and recent work has pushed the field to diversify even further. This collection takes this agenda forward by showcasing inspiring, critical and plural perspectives for contemporary economic geographies. Highlighting the contributions of global scholars, the thirty chapters showcase fresh ways of approaching economic geography in research, teaching and praxis. With sections on thought leaders, contemporary critical debates and future research agendas, this collection calls for greater openness and inclusivity.Table of ContentsIntroducing Contemporary Economic Geographies: An Inspiring, Critical and Plural Collection - Jennifer Johns and Sarah Marie Hall PART 1: Inspirational Thought Leaders 1. Doreen Massey: For Political Praxis, Relationality and Contingency - Faith MacNeil Taylor 2. Beverley Mullings: Social Transformations, Social Reproduction and Social Justice - Caitlin Henry 3. Susan Christopherson: On (Still) Being Outside the Project - Jennifer Clark 4. J.K. Gibson-Graham: Feminist Geographies and Diverse Economies - Zara Babakordi 5. Jessie Poon: International Trade and Geographies of Finance - Karen P.Y. Lai 6. Linda McDowell: Complex Geographies that Matter - Karenjit Clare 7. Yuko Aoyama: Curiosity as Method - Heidi Østbo-Haugen 8. Susanne Soederberg: A Critical and Multidisciplinary Global Political Economy - Lama Tawakkol 9. Simona Iammarino: Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Economy - Rhiannon Pugh 10. Susan Strange: Trading Zones - Sarah Hall PART 2: Critical Debates in Contemporary Economic Geographies 11. Informal Economies: Towards Plurality and Social Justice - Kavita Ramakrishnan and Emma Mawdsley 12. Global Economy: Geographies of Production During Crises - Vida Vanchan 13. Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Who Is Forgotten? - Wenying Fu 14. Consumption: Advancing Postcolonial Perspectives from the Global South - Luiza Sarayed-Din and Alex Hughes 15. Governance: Climate Change and Land Use in the Anthropocene - Janelle Knox-Hayes 16. Creativity: An Evolving Critical Debate - Suntje Schmidt 17. Industrial Landscapes: From the Geographies of Production to Everyday Life - Chantel Carr and Natasha Larkin 18. Labour: Reckoning with Inequality through ‘Divisions of Labour - Nancy Worth 19. Economic Development: Political Ecologies of Race - Sharlene Mollett 20. Poverty and Inequality: Austerity, Welfare Reforms and Insecurity - Amy Greer Murphy PART 3: Charting Future Research Agendas for Economic Geographies 21. Housing Struggles: Dwelling in Crisis Economies - Mara Ferreri 22. Urban Economies: Learning from Post-Socialist Contexts - Elena Trubina 23. Migration and Cross-Border Trading - Charlotte Wrigley-Asante and Mariama Zaami 24. Care and Social Reproduction - Kendra Strauss 25. The Future of Creative Industries and Labour - Taylor Brydges 26. Future Finance - Sabine Dörry 27. Disasters and Recovery: Postcolonializing Economic Geography - Gemma Sou 28. Retail Market Futures: Retail Geographies from and for the Margins - Myfanwy Taylor and Sara González 29. Resources and Extraction - Julie Ann de los Reyes 30. Workplaces of the Future - Lizzie Richardson Postscript: Continuing the Work - Jennifer Johns and Sarah Marie Hall

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Book SynopsisBringing together the voices of local scholars in the Philippines, this book offers critical insights into one of the world’s most disaster-prone regions. The Asia-Pacific region is one of the most vulnerable regions in the world, with the effects of climate change contributing to rising sea levels and increasingly frequent typhoons and floods. Case studies in this book examine such disasters, including the aftermath of 2013 super typhoon Haiyan. Discussions are centered around four themes: women and empowerment, economics and recovery, community and resilience, and religion and spirituality. Through its analysis, the book demonstrates the scopes, inequities, and inefficiencies of policies and responses, as well as forms of empowerment and resilience, in meeting challenges in disaster-afflicted communities in the Philippines. Its conclusions provide a more nuanced and grounded perspective of policies, practices, and approaches in the sociology of disasters today.Table of ContentsPart 1: Disasters in the Philippines: Overview and Responses 1. Introduction - Glenda Tibe Bonifacio and Roxanna Balbido Epe 2. Socio-Economic Impact of Disasters in the Philippines: The First Two Decades of the 21st century - Roberto Ariel Abeldaño Zuñiga 3. State of ICT-use within the Local Climate E-Governance in Metro Manila, Philippines - Xavier Venn A. Asuncion 4. Food and Nutrition Security and Children’s Health Challenges in Extreme Weather Disasters in the Philippines: Understanding the Implications of Gender Roles - Erlidia F. Llamas-Clark 5. Children and Disaster Risk Reduction: Building Resilience from Education, Local Government Units, and Communities - Roxanna Balbido Epe Part 2: Haiyan Aftermath 6. From Disaster Woes to Economic Windfall: The Case of San Juan Women of Sta. Rita, Samar - Anita G. Cular 7. Disaster Events and Role Transitions: Narratives of Filipino Rural Women after Typhoon Haiyan - Rowena S. Guiang and Ervina A. Espina 8. Women’s Participation in Small Island Resilience Building in Concepcion, Iloilo, Philippines - Dhino B. Geges 9. What Could Have Been? Disaster Impact Analysis of Haiyan in Region VIII - Shiely Anne O. Julian and Francine Blaise M. Loja 10. Gender and Labour Market Regimes in Post-Disaster Haiyan Communities in Leyte - Glenda Tibe Bonifacio 11. No One Left Behind? A Case for Disability-inclusive Disaster Risk Reduction in the Philippines - Kaira Zoe Alburo-Cañete, Corazon Clarin, Marivic Codiñera, and Katherine Velmonte 12. Climate Change and Applied Theater as Post Disaster-Response - Dennis D. Gupa 13. Beyond Bayanihan: Overcoming Myths of Community Resilience in Typhoon Haiyan Post-Disaster Recovery - Yvonne Su, Ladylyn Mangada, and Ara Joy Pacoma 14. Increasing Resilience in Communities affected by Typhoon Haiyan: World Renew’s Response in the Philippines - Grace Wiebe 15. Religion in the Public Sphere in the Aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan - Maria Cecilia T. Medina Conclusion (For Now): Post-Haiyan Philippines and Beyond - Glenda Tibe Bonifacio and Roxanna Balbido Epe

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Book SynopsisEPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Offering a unique introduction to the study of justice in the European, North American and Russian Arctic, this collection considers the responsibilities and failures of justice for environment and society in the region. Inspired by key thinkers in justice, this book highlights the real and practical consequences of postcolonial legacies, climate change and the regions’ incorporation into the international political economy. The chapters feature liberal, cosmopolitan, feminist, as well as critical justice perspectives from experts with decades of research experience in the Arctic. Moving from a critique of current failures, the collection champions a just and sustainable future for Arctic development and governance.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Justice in the Arctic - Corine Wood-Donnelly and Johanna Ohlsson 1. Applying a Transnational Theory of Justice to the Arctic - Johanna Ohlsson 2. Responsibility of and for Structural (In)Justice in Arctic Governance - Corine Wood-Donnelly 3. A Relational View of Responsibility for Climate Change Effects on the Territories and Communities of the Arctic - Tracey Skillington 4. A JUST CSR Framework for the Arctic - Darren McCauley 5. Collective Capabilities and Stranded Assets: Clearing the Path for the Energy Transition in the Arctic - Roman Sidortsov and Anna Badyina 6. Mainstreaming Environmental Justice? Right to the Landscape in Northern Sweden - Tom Mels 7. Sacrifice Zones: A Conceptual Framework for Arctic Justice Studies? - Berit Skorstad 8. Planning for Whose Benefit? Procedural (In)Justice in Norwegian Arctic Industry Projects - Ragnhild Freng Dale and Halvor Dannevig 9. The Complex Relationship between Forest Sámi and the Finnish State - Tanja Joona and Juha Joona 10. FPIC and Geoengineering in the Future of Scandinavia - Aaron M. Cooper 11. Overarching Issues of Justice in the Arctic: Reflections from the Case of South Greenland - Joan Nymand Larsen and Jón Haukur Ingimundarson 12. Seeing Like an Arctic City: The Lived Politics of Just Transition at Norway’s Oil and Gas Frontier - Anna Badyina and Oleg Golubchikov Conclusion: Making Connections between Justice and Studies of the Arctic - Johanna Ohlsson and Corine Wood-Donnelly

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Book SynopsisThis book is novel and unlike any other book out there. It will expand the knowledge base on activist Feminist Geography research in one place and include cutting-edge original research.Table of ContentsIntroduction – Kate Boyer, LaToya Eaves, and Jennifer Fluri 1. Evacuation Lost: Activism and Scholarship in a Time of Geopolitical Crisis – Jennifer Fluri 2. Women Weaving Critical Geographies – GeoBrujas-Comunidad de Geógrafas: Frida Itzel Rivera Juárez, Gabriela Mariana Fenner- Sánchez, Karla Helena Guzmán Velázquez, Valeria Ysunza, Tlazol Tlemoyotl, Esperanza González Hernández, and Karina Flores Cruz 3. Critical Geography Collective of Ecuador as Feminist Geography Collective Praxis – Sofia Zaragocin, Soledad Álvarez Velasco, Guglielmina Falanga, Amanda Yépez, and Gabriela Ruales 4. Legacies of Black Feminist Activism in the US South – LaToya E. Eaves 5. LGBTQ+ Activism and Morality Politics in Central and Eastern Europe: Understanding the Dynamic Equilibrium in Czechia from a Broader Transnational Perspective – Michal Pitoňák 6. Sexual Harassment and Claiming the Right to Everyday Life – Kate Boyer 7. Giving Birth in a ‘Hostile Environment’ – Maria Fannin 8. Respectful Relationalities: Researching with Those Who Contest or Have Concerns about Changes in Sexual and Gender Legislation and Cultures – Kath Browne and Catherine Nash Conclusion – Kate Boyer, LaToya Eaves, and Jennifer Fluri

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Book SynopsisSince the earliest days of civilization, streets have played an important role in shaping society – but what is a street? Is it a living ecosystem, a public space, a social space, an economic space or a combination of these? The focus on automotive travel over the past century has changed the role of streets in cities. This has degraded the quality of urban life and contributed to public health issues. This book offers a unique look at streets as locations that can evolve to support the economic, social, cultural and natural aspects of cities. Using modern urban design examples, it challenges readers to focus not only on the livability and travel benefits of roads, but on how the power of streets can be harnessed. In so doing, it shapes more dynamic spaces for walking, biking and living, and aims to stimulate urban vitality and community regeneration, encouraging policymakers and individuals to make changes in their own communities.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. A Recent History of the Street 3. The Street for Transport 4. The Street as Economic Space 5. The Street as Social Space 6. The Street as Cultural Space 7. The Street as a Natural Space 8. The Challenges to Ending the Road 9. Beyond Streets: Integrating Behavior 10. A Window into the Future: New Vehicles, New Streets 11. A Call to Action: Streets as the Heart of the City

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Book SynopsisWhat is it like to have a baby in climate crisis? This book explores the experiences of pregnant women and their partners, pre- and post-birth, during the catastrophic Australian bushfire season of 2019-20 and the subsequent COVID-19 pandemic. Engaging a range of concepts, including the Pyrocene, breath, care and embodiment, the authors explore how climate crisis is changing experiences of having children. They also raise questions about how gender and sexuality are shaped by histories of human engagements with fire. This interdisciplinary analysis brings feminist and queer questions about reproduction and kin into debates on contemporary planetary crises.Table of ContentsInterleave 1 1 Reproducing in Climate Crisis Interleave 2 2. Methods in Crisis Interleave 3 3. Breath, Breathing and 'Mum-Guilt' Interleave 4 4. Smoke, Machines and Public Health Interleave 5 5. Kin, Care and Crises Interleave 6 6. Pyro-Reproductive Futures Interleave 7 7. Making Bushfire Babies

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Book SynopsisAvailable Open Access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. With Agenda 2030, the UN adopted wide-ranging Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that integrate development and environmental agendas. This book focuses on the political tensions between the environmental objectives and socio-economic aspects of sustainable development. The collection provides an introduction to interlinkages, synergies and trade-offs between the ‘green’ and other goals, such as gender equality and economic growth. It also considers related goals on cities and partnerships as crucial for implementing environmentally sound sustainability. Identifying governance failures and responsibilities, it advocates for a shift towards cooperative economics and politics for the common good.Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Integration of Development and Environmental Agendas - Lena Partzsch Part 1: The Green Goals 2. Governing the Climate Crisis: Three Challenges for SDG 13 - Jens Marquardt and Miranda Schreurs 3. Key Logics of International Forest Governance and SDG 15 - Daniela Kleinschmit, Mareike Blum, Maria Brockhaus, Mawa Karambiri, Markus Kröger, Sabaheta Ramcilovik-Suominen and Sabine Reinecke 4. Protecting Life Below Water: Competing Normative, Economic, and Epistemic Orders [SDG 14] - Alice B.M. Vadrot 5. Sustainable Development and Water: Cross-Sectoral, Transboundary and Multi-Level Governance Arrangements in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Switzerland - Manuel Fischer, Paul Cisneros, Julie Duval, Javier Gonzales-Iwanciw and Sofia Cordero Part 2: The Goals with Environmental Trade-Offs and Synergies 6. Water for Life and Food: Synergies Between Sdgs 2 and 6 and Human Rights - Lyla Mehta, Claudia Ringler and Shiney Varghese 7. SDG 2 and the Dominance of Food Security in the Global Agri-Food Norm Cluster - Sandra Schwindenhammer and Lena Partzsch 8. Clean Energy Services: Universal Access as Enabler for Development? - Nopenyo Dabla and Andreas Goldthau 9. From Economic Growth to Socio-Ecological Transformation: Rethinking Visions of Economy and Work Under SDG 8 - Ekaterina Chertkovskaya 10. ‘We Do Not Want to be Mainstreamed into a Polluted Stream’: An Ecofeminist Critique of SDG 5 - Sherilyn Macgregor and Aino Ursula Mäki 11. Realising Sustainable Consumption and Production - Sylvia Lorek, Maurie Cohen and Eva Alfredsson Part 3: The Goals Relevant for an Environmentally Sound Implementation 12. Cities and the Sdgs: A Spotlight on Urban Settlements - Anna Kosovac and Daniel Pejic 13. Partnerships for Sdgs: Facilitating a Biodiversity-Climate Nexus? - Montserrat Koloffon Rosas and Philipp Pattberg 14. Synthesis: The Environment In Global Sustainability Governance - Lena Partzsch

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Book SynopsisThis first volume in green criminology devoted to gender investigates gendered patterns to offending, victimisation and environmental harms. It includes feminist and intersectional analysis, and original case studies from the Global North and Global South. The book also examines actions that have been taken in response to gendered crimes and harms, together with insights on the gendered nature of resistance. The collection advances debate on green crimes, environmental harm and climate change, and will inspire students and researchers to foreground gender in debates about reducing and transforming the challenges affecting our planet’s future.Table of Contents1. Why Gendering Green Criminology Matters - Emma Milne, Pamela Davies, James Heydon, Kay Peggs, and Tanya Wyatt Part 1: Gendered Nature of Green Crimes and Environmental Harm 2. Eco-feminism and the Gendering Green Criminology Project - Pamela Davies 3. New Directions Please! Veganising Green Criminology - Kay Peggs 4. Men and the Climate Crisis: Why Masculinities Matter for Green Criminology - Stephen R. Burrell 5. Reconceptualising Gendered Dimensions of Illegal Wildlife Trade in Sub-Saharan Africa through Legal, Policy and Programmatic Means - Helen U. Agu, Josiah C. Ogbuka and Meredith L. Gore 6. The Attitudes of People with Different Gender Identities and Different Perceptions of Gender Roles towards Nonhuman Animals and Their Welfare - Aphra Hope-Forest, Ekaterina Gladkova and Tanya Wyatt Part 2: Gendered Impacts and Victimisation 7. Queering Green Criminology: The Impacts of Zoonotic Diseases on the LGBTQ Community - Laurence Pedroni and Benja Kromash 8. Women and the Structural Violence of ‘Fast-Fashion’ Global Production: Victimisation, Poorcide and Environmental Harms - Sandya Hewamanne and Nigel South 9. Green Victims of the International Waste Industry: An Analysis from a Gender Perspective - María-Ángeles Fuentes-Loureiro 10. The Green Road Project and Women’s Green Victimisation in Turkey - Halil Ibrahim Bahar 11. ‘Daughters of Dust’: An Eco-Feminist Analysis of Debt-for-Nature Swaps and Underage Marriage in Indonesia - Delon Alain Omrow Part 3: Resistance 12. Women’s Experiences of Environmental Harm in Colombia: Learning from Black, Decolonial and Indigenous Communitarian Feminisms - Daniela Suárez Vargas and Rachel Killean 13. Vegan Feminism Then and Now: Women’s Resistance to Legalised Speciesism Across Three Waves of Activism - Corey Lee Wrenn and Lynda M. Korimboccus 14. ‘To Preserve and Promote’: Gendering Harm in Green Cultural Criminology - Angeline Marie Letourneau 15. David and Goliath: Exploring the Male Burdens of Patriarchal Capitalism - Rob White

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Book SynopsisDeath studies typically focus on the death of humans, overlooking the wider factors involved in social and natural processes around death. This edited volume provides an alternative focus for death studies by looking beyond human death, to reveal the complex interconnections among human and more than human creatures, entities and environments. Bringing together a diverse range of international scholars, the book sheds light on topics which have previously remained at the margins of contemporary death studies and death care cultures. Organised around three themes – Knowledge and Mediation, Care and Remembrance, and Agency and Power – this book pushes the boundaries of death studies to explore death and dying from beyond the perspective of a nature/culture binary.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Jesse D. Peterson, Natashe Lemos Dekker, Philip R. Olson Part I: Ontologies & Epistemologies 1. ‘Seeing for real’: Forensic Pathologists Testing the Demonstrative Power of Postmortem Imaging - Céline Schnegg, Séverine Rey, Alejandro Dominguez 2. Death at a Planetary Scale: Mortality’s Materiality in the Context of the Anthropocene - Philip R. Olson 3. Death in the Fields: Microbial ‘Destruction’ in Polluted Soils - Serena Zanzu 4. Can the Baltic Sea Die? An Environmental Imaginary of a Dying Sea - Jesse D. Peterson Part II: Care & Remembrance 5. Viral Flows and Immunological Gestures: Contagious and Dead Bodies in México and Ecuador during COVID-19 - Rosa Inés Padilla Yépez, Anne W. Johnson 6. Advertising the Ancestors: Ghanaian Funeral Banners as Image Objects - Isabel Bredenbroker 7. Dying Apart and Buried Together: COVID-19, Cemeteries, and Fears of Collective Burial - Samuel Holleran 8. Spirit Mediums at the Margins: Materiality, Death, and Dying in Northern Zimbaabwee - Olga Sicilia Part III: Troubling Agencies 9. Rehabilitate or Euthanize?: Biopolitics and Care in Seal Conservation - Doortje Hoerst 10. Troubling Entanglements: Death, Loss and the Dead in and on Television - Bethan Michael-Fox 11. Material Entanglements of the Corpse - Marc Trabsky and Jacinthe Flore 12. The Dead Who Would be Trees and Mushrooms - Hannah Gould, Tamara Kohn, Michael Arnold, Allison Fraser Concluding Discussion 13. Beyond the Norms - Jesse D. Peterson, Natashe Lemos Dekker, Philip R. Olson

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Book Synopsis*THE NO.5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*'Grips from the first page . . . Among the best he's written' Sunday ExpressA TOMB OF ICEA young meteorologist checking a mountain top weather station in Kinlochleven discovers the body of a missing man entombed in ice.A DYING DETECTIVECameron Brodie, a Glasgow detective, sets out on a hazardous journey to the isolated and ice-bound village. He has his own reasons for wanting to investigate a murder case so far from his beat.AN AGONIZING RECKONINGBrodie must face up to the ghosts of his past and to a killer determined to bury forever the chilling secret that his investigation threatens to expose.Set against a backdrop of a frighteningly plausible near-future, A WINTER GRAVE is Peter May at his page-turning, passionate and provocative best.Trade ReviewA Winter Grave is timely and chilling, painting a disturbing picture of the future . . . it's a meticulously researched thriller with gravitas that grips from the first page . . . May's first novel in two years is among the best he's written. * S Magazine, Sunday Express *May has created a chilling believable near future . . . an atmospheric locked room mystery . . . this is as chilling as much for May's vision of where the we're heading as for the body count. * Observer *A gripping thriller set in a near future ravaged by the climate crisis. * Scots Mag *A Winter Grave is a superb thriller loaded with timely warnings. * Yorkshire Post *

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Book SynopsisIn this book the history and development of wind energy is reviewed. Scientific trends in the academic field of wind energy are determined using a scientometric network analysis. The relationship between wind speed forecasting and wind disasters is evaluated, particularly focusing on extra-tropical and tropical cyclones due to their dynamic origins. Wind energy plays a significant role in clean energy sources, and the amount of energy that can be produced from a wind turbine is directly related to the value of the wind speed in that specific location. The closing study focuses on wind as a source of energy in Kitka and Koznica, maintaining that in order to harness wind energy, it is necessary to carry out terrain condition analyses for the installation of wind turbines.

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Book SynopsisHuman-made climate change may have begun in the last two hundred years, but our species has witnessed many eras of climate instability. The results have not always been pretty. From Ancient Egypt to Rome to the Maya, some of history's mightiest civilizations have been felled by pestilence and glacial melt and drought.The challenges are no less great today. We face hurricanes and megafires and food shortages and more. But we have one powerful advantage as we face our current crisis: the past. Our knowledge of ancient climates has advanced tremendously in the last decade, to the point where we can now reconstruct seasonal weather going back thousands of years and see just how people and nature interacted. The lesson is clear: the societies that survive are those that plan ahead.Climate Chaos is a book about saving ourselves. Brian Fagan and Nadia Durrani show in remarkable detail what it was like to battle our climate over centuries and offer us a path to a safer and healthier future.

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