Disastrous times : beyond environmental crisis in urbanizing Asia / edited by Eli Elinoff and Tyson Vaughan.
Across contemporary Asia, each day dawns with a new story about living in an era of profound environmental change. Rapid transformations in the landscape, society, and technology produce new conflicts that are experienced at nearly every scale of life in the region. Environmental change is marked in...
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| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2021]
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| Series: | Critical studies in risk and disaster.
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Table of Contents:
- Breathing in Beijing : governing particles and people in urban China / Samuel Kay
- Figuring (out) the sinking city : tidal floods and urban subsidence in Semarang, Indonesia / Lukas Ley
- Ambient air : Kolkata's bicycle politics and postcarbon futures / Malini Sur
- Infrastructures of feeling : the sense and governance of disasters in Sri Lanka / Vivian Choi
- Lots of smoke, but where's the fire? Contested causality and shifting blame in the Southeast Asian haze crisis / Jenny Elaine Goldstein
- Reimagining the natures of state : the rise of fisheries co-management in Vietnam / Edmund Joo Vin Oh
- The new, accidental gods : engaging with the spirits of disaster in Bangkok / Andrew Alan Johnson
- The unspectacular spectacle of low-carbon life : climate change and self governing in an urban community in China / Nikolaj Blichfeldt
- Drawing the future : urban imaginaries after the 2011 Thai floods / Eli Elinoff
- Re-mooring : rethinking recovery and resilience in the Anthropocene / Tyson Vaughan.