{"product_id":"fire-and-flood-thomas-princen-9780262552127","title":"Fire and Flood: Extreme Events and Social Change Past, Present, Future","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow extreme events, paradoxically, sow the seeds of positive response--and create opportunities for becoming adaptive to place.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThroughout our history we have dealt with extreme events, sometimes adaptively, by coping or even thriving with them, and sometimes disastrously, by repeatedly ignoring their lessons. Now extreme events and disasters are increasing in frequency and severity, and their signals are difficult to read. In \u003ci\u003eFire and Flood\u003c\/i\u003e, Thomas Princen argues that the most useful signals may be those coming from fires and floods, both historically and today. This book looks to these past and present events to imagine--and to construct--a regenerative future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExtreme events are much more than just confirmation of climate change. Princen's in-depth investigation of disaster response, including our long-term societal response, goes beyond the harm and destruction, the cries for better prevention and protection, and the simplistic formula that, with mere awareness of extreme events, the world will finally \"combat\" climate change. We must learn to read extreme events as signals indicating how adaptive or maladaptive our patterns of extraction, consumption, settlement, and transport are, and, more generally, how sustainable and just our economies are. Understanding these signals will allow us to become adaptive to place and plan for a future living with fires and floods.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Princen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0262552124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780262552127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/20\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2026","brand":"Thomas Princen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48440928338175,"sku":"9780262552127","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_252606f9-912f-4efe-a4dd-e5a3107a61c6.jpg?v=1777187599","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fire-and-flood-thomas-princen-9780262552127","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}