{"product_id":"risky-cities-the-physical-and-fiscal-nature-of-disaster-capitalism-9781978820319","title":"Risky Cities: The Physical and Fiscal Nature of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver 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. \u003ci\u003eRisky Cities\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eRisky Cities\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Fu offers a theoretically rich and empirically grounded analysis of how disaster capitalism and unsustainable urban development transforms environmental bads into economically valuable goods. These transformations have devastating consequences, further exacerbating social and environmental inequities in a highly urbanized and warming world. \u003ci\u003eRisky Cities\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for anyone with interests in urban political economy, environmental social science, and global studies.\" -- Andrew Jorgenson * Professor of Sociology, Boston College *\u003cbr\u003e\"I see \u003ci\u003eRisky Cities\u003c\/i\u003e becoming the landmark work on how ‘everyday’ urban risks are produced and then commodified—and what we might do to arrest this process.\" -- Tim Haney * Board of Governors Research Chair in Resilience \u0026amp; Sustainability, Mount Royal University, Calgary *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eRisky Cities\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eRisky Cities\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\" * ASA Environmental Sociology Section Newsletter *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e List of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Living with Disaster \u0026amp; Capitalism          \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Sinkholes and the Risky Foundations of Cities\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: The Logistical Nightmare of Trash \u0026amp; Urban Nature\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Fire, the Wildland-Urban Interface, and Feedback Loops          \u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Assessing and Managing Risk\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: Regenerative Urbanism \u003cbr\u003e References     \u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49415247855959,"sku":"9781978820319","price":107.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781978820319.jpg?v=1730526384","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/risky-cities-the-physical-and-fiscal-nature-of-disaster-capitalism-9781978820319","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}