{"product_id":"surviving-collapse-building-community-toward-radical-sustainability-9780197544105","title":"Surviving Collapse: Building Community Toward Radical Sustainability","description":"As major environmental crises loom, Christina Ergas makes the argument in \u003cem\u003eSurviving Collapse\u003c\/em\u003e that one possible way forward is a radical sustainable development that turns the focus from monetary gain to social and ecological regeneration and transformation. Employing qualitative and\u003cbr\u003ecross-national comparative methods, Ergas examines two alternative, community-scale, socioecological models of development: the first is a grassroots urban ecovillage in the Pacific Northwest, United States, while the second is a government-subsidized, but cooperatively run, urban farm in Havana, \u003cbr\u003eCuba. While neither are panaceas, they prioritize social and ecological efficiency and subsume economic rationality towards those ends. Featuring cases that not only allow us to synthesize their strengths but evaluate their weaknesses, \u003cem\u003eSurviving Collapse\u003c\/em\u003e reveals a multitude of varied paths toward\u003cbr\u003ereaching radical urban sustainability and empowers us all to imagine, and possibly build, more resilient futures.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristina Ergas\u003c\/strong\u003e is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Tennessee. Their research areas include sustainability, environmental injustice, gender and development, and environmental social movements. Dr Ergas received a PhD from the University of Oregon in 2013 and completed a Postdoc at Brown in 2017. Some journals they have published in include \u003cem\u003eRural Sociology\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eOrganization and Environment\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEnvironmental Sociology\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSocial Science Research\u003c\/em\u003e. Dr Ergas also is active in environmental movements, including the climate strikes and pursuing a Green New Deal.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50449283350802,"sku":"9780197544105","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_bbba451b-0e44-4e6e-952c-f224b8c7a98c.jpg?v=1729743752","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/surviving-collapse-building-community-toward-radical-sustainability-9780197544105","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}