Disaster Makers
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-43047-1 (ISBN)
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Some disasters are highly visible to us all, such as the Covid-19 pandemic or the climate emergency. Many more are hidden, everyday disasters grinding down the lives of the poor and vulnerable. Very few of these disasters just happen. Most are caused by those who create risk faster than they can mop it up, by those who pursue reckless, unmanaged economic growth that demands ever-increasing manufacture, consumption, building, food production, and energy consumption. These are the disaster makers.
In this book, Gibson provides a thorough, sophisticated, yet accessible account of who the disaster makers are, what they do, and how we can do things better. Ultimately, Gibson demonstrates the urgency of replacing growth-based economics with a fundamentally different social and economic model. This is more than a dream. As Gibson shows, it becomes a practical possibility the moment enough of us commit to building a movement.
Terry Gibson is a researcher and practitioner in the disasters, development, and corporate responsibility industries. For eight years, he acted as director of Global Network of Civil Society Organisations for Disaster Reduction. Has published a wide range of papers and chapters, as well as the book Making Aid Agencies Work (2019), and he runs the website inventing-futures.org.
Chapter 1: Disasters don’t happen, they’re made – disasters are the result of human choices
Chapter 2: Understanding Risk – the development of disaster studies and its understanding of risk
Chapter 3: Disastermakers – who or what is creating risk?
Chapter 4: An Inconvenient Truth – the oncoming climate emergency
Chapter 5: Sailing Away from Disaster – systems change to avert disaster
Chapter 6: The art of life itself? – away from the growth paradigm
Chapter 7: The art of the possible – what changes minds?
Chapter 8: Conclusions
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 20.2.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 138 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-43047-1 / 1350430471 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-43047-1 / 9781350430471 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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