1st Edition

Sustainable Futures for Climate Adaptation Wearing Our Ecology

By Benedict Anderson Copyright 2024
234 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

234 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Considering sustainability as a flawed and restrictive term in practice, Sustainable Futures for Climate Adaptation argues that we must radically adapt humanity and reform society, cities, buildings, and our approach to migration in order to coexist in harmony with our natural environments. The book conceives an Earth–human coexistence where the world’s regions are shared globally between all... Read more

Introduction—Earth Overshoot  1. Sustainability’s Paradox—Commitments and Inactions  2. Terrestrial Migrations—Nomadic Ecologies  3. Earth Extractions—Pillage and Ransack  4. Weathering Patterns—Entering the Biosphere  5. Climate Gathering—Wearing Our Ecology  6. Environmental Adaptations—Spiral-Swarming, Human Diversity  7. Future Human—Ultra-Terrestrial Worlds

Biography

Benedict Anderson is an independent scholar and practices in design, architecture, and public art. He has held academic and professorial positions in many different universities, lectured extensively as an invited speaker, and exhibited in major exhibitions around the world. His previous books for Routledge are Buried City, Unearthing Teufelsberg: Berlin and Its Geography of Forgetting (2017), The City in Geography: Renaturing the Built Environment (2019), and The City in Transgression: Human Mobility and Resistance in the 21st Century (2020).