Nouveau livre du professeur Gonzalo Lizarralde
Debating Disaster Risk
Ethical Dilemmas in the Era of Climate Change
Edited by Gonzalo Lizarralde, Lisa Bornstein, and Tapan Dhar
Dealing with the risks of climate change and disaster is a political process. It produces winners and losers, mobility and permanence, radical change and continuity, relief and suffering. For some, it ultimately leads to life or death. Yet consultants, academics, humanitarian agents, and politicians often simply propose well-intentioned ideas—resilience, sustainability, community participation, emergency shelter, green development—while failing to perceive the blind spots and unintended consequences of such approaches.
Debating Disaster Risk brings together leading global experts to explore the controversies that emerge—and the tough decisions that must be made—when cities, people, and the environment are at risk. Scholars and practitioners discuss the challenges of reducing vulnerability and rebuilding after destruction in an accessible and lively debate format, with commentary by researchers, students, and development workers from across the world. They emphasize the ethical consequences of decisions about how cities and communities should prepare for and react to disasters, considering issues such as housing, environmental protection, urban development, and infrastructure recovery.
A valuable resource for scholars, students, and practitioners in a variety of fields, this book provides an in-depth analysis of the difficult choices we face in dealing with disasters. As climate change accelerates, Debating Disaster Risk invites readers to grapple with the most pressing controversies.
With:
Thomas Fisher
Michael Mehaffy
J. C. Gaillard
Carmen Mendoza-Arroyo
Daniel Aldrich
Jonathan Joseph
Ilan Kelman
Graham Saunders
Kamel Abboud
Jeff Crisp
Christopher Bryant
Camillo Boano
Anna Konotchick
Jason von Meding
Lorenzo Chelleri
Craig Johnson
Edmundo Werna
Brian Aldrich
Jared O. Blum
David Wachsmuth
Deborah Harford
Silja Klepp
Faten Kikano
Mauro Cossu
Mahmood Fayazi
Columbia University Press
École d’architecture, Université de Montréal
Faculté de l’aménagement, Université de Montréal
McGill University
School of urban planning, McGill University
Trent University