EAN: 9780231198103

UNNATURAL DISASTERS - WHY MOST RESPONSES TO RIS...

Unnatural Disasters offers a new perspective on our most pressing environmental and social
challenges  revealing the gaps between abstract concepts like sustainability  resilience  and
innovation and the real-world experiences of the people living at risk. Gonzalo Lizarralde
explains how the causes of disasters are not natural but all too human: inequality  segregation
marginalization  colonialism  neoliberalism  racism  and unrestrained capitalism. He tells the
stories of Latin American migrants  Haitian earthquake survivors  Canadian climate activists 
African slum dwellers  and other people resisting social and environmental injustices around
the world. Lizarralde shows that most reconstruction and risk-reduction efforts exacerbate
social inequalities. Some responses do produce meaningful changes  but they are rarely the ones
powerful leaders have in mind.

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