Sustainable Futures for Climate Adaptation: Wearing Our Ecology

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 people, in contrast to a reality where we  have lost touch with the natural world. It is this decoupling of  humanity and nature that has brought us to the brink of climate  disaster. In response, Benedict Anderson explores the concept of  ‘wearing our ecology’, where human mobility is synchronized with the  environment, merging people with landscapes, topographies, and  geographies. Anderson argues that we need to create new migration routes  for people moving between the Global South and North and establish  flexible and adaptive living environments. Only by rethinking  separations between urban and rural, resource extraction and  consumption, racial prejudice and accessibility are we able to forge a  closer partnership with nature to adapt to climate change and mitigate  the worst of its effects.

Touching on themes of  adaptive urban design, racial and gender segregation and inequality, and  climate apocalypticism, this book will be valuable reading for  researchers, scholars, and upper-level students in the fields of urban  studies, migration studies, human geography, ecology, politics, and  design.