Fire and Flood
Extreme Events and Social Change Past, Present, Future
$71.99
- Paperback
200 pages
- Release Date
24 June 2025
Summary
How extreme events, paradoxically, sow the seeds of positive response—and create opportunities for becoming adaptive to place.
Throughout our history we have dealt with extreme events, sometimes adaptively, by coping or even thriving with them, and sometimes disastrously, by repeatedly ignoring their lessons. Now extreme events and disasters are increasing in frequency and severity, and their signals are difficult to read. In Fire and Flood, Thomas Princen argues that the most useful …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262552127 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262552124 |
| Author: | Thomas Princen |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 200 |
| Release Date: | 24 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | One Planet |
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Critics Review
“Tom Princen shows us that fires and floods are more than just disasters. They reflect an increasingly dysfunctional order, but also open opportunities for change. We should heed his call for a new politics of caring, humility, and imagination.”
—Ken Conca, Professor of Environment, Development, and Health, School of International Service, American University; author of After the Floods: The Search for Resilience in Ellicott City
“Princen tackles extreme events through the lens of potential societal change, offering propositions necessary for us to build a more resilient future for our planet and its inhabitants. A must-read in disaster politics!”
—Deserai Anderson Crow, Professor, School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado Denver; coauthor of Community Disaster Recovery: Moving from Vulnerability to Resilience
About The Author
Thomas Princen
Thomas Princen is a faculty member at the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. Among his books are The Logic of Sufficiency, Treading Softly, Confronting Consumption, Ending the Fossil Fuel Era, and The Localization Reader, all from the MIT Press.
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