Flame and fortune in the American West [electronic resource] : urban development, environmental change, and the great Oakland Hills fire / Gregory L. Simon.
"Flame and Fortune in the American West investigates the ongoing politics, folly, and avarice shaping the production of increasingly widespread yet dangerous suburban and exurban landscapes. The 1991 Oakland Hills Tunnel Fire is used as a starting point to better understand these complex social-envi...
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| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Critical environment: nature, science, and politics
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Flame and Fortune in the American West: Urban Development, Environmental Change, and the Great Oakland Hills Fire |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
Contents:
- The 1991 Tunnel Fire : the case for an affluence-vulnerability interface
- The changing American West : from "flammable landscape" to the "incendiary"
- Trailblazing : producing landscapes, extracting profits, inserting risk
- Setting the stage for disaster : revenue maximization, wealth protection, and its discontents
- Who's vulnerable? the politics of identifying, experiencing, and reducing risk
- Smoke screen : when explaining wildfires conceals the incendiary
- Debates of distraction : our inability to see the incendiary for the spark
- Dispatches from the field : win-win outcomes and the limits of post-wildfire mitigation
- Out of the ashes : the rise of disaster capitalism and financial opportunism
- Conclusion : from excavating to treating the incendiary.