Risky Cities: The Physical and Fiscal Nature of Disaster Capitalism (Nature, Society, and Culture)

By: Albert S. Fu

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Synopsis: Over 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. Risky Cities 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. Risky Cities 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.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
Book Size:: 174 Pages
ISBN-13:: 9781978820326
Related ISBNs:: 9781978820319, 9781978820302
Publisher:: Rutgers University Press
Date of Addition:: 03/18/22
Copyrighted By:: Albert S. Fu
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Science, Outdoors and Nature, Technology, Social Studies, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.