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Vajont

The Political Ecology of an Unnatural Disaster

by Marco Armiero

ISBN: 9780262053013

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 28, 2026

The sobering political implications of a disaster—the Vajont landslide in Italy in 1963—and how it speaks directly to our present environmental crisis.

Fire and Flood

Extreme Events and Social Change Past, Present, Future

by Thomas Princen

ISBN: 9780262552127

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: May 20, 2025

How extreme events, paradoxically, sow the seeds of positive response—and create opportunities for becoming adaptive to place.

Urban Engineering for Sustainability

by Sybil Derrible

ISBN: 9780262553445

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 4, 2025

A textbook that introduces integrated, sustainable design of urban infrastructures, drawing on civil engineering, environmental engineering, urban planning, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, and computer science.

Reimagining the More-Than-Human City

Stories from Singapore

by Jamie Wang

ISBN: 9780262550932

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: October 1, 2024

An exploration of the multifaceted urban environmental issues in Singapore through a more-than-human lens, calling for new ways to think of and story cities.

Living Surfaces

Images, Plants, and Environments of Media

by Abelardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka

ISBN: 9780262547956

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: June 25, 2024

An investigation of aesthetics and visualizations of planetary surfaces from an experimental media theory perspective.

Gaia's Web

How Digital Environmentalism Can Combat Climate Change, Restore Biodiversity, Cultivate Empathy, and Regenerate the Earth

by Karen Bakker

ISBN: 9780262048750

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 16, 2024

A riveting exploration of one of the most important dilemmas of our time: will digital technology accelerate environmental degradation, or could it play a role in ecological regeneration?

Design for a Better World

Meaningful, Sustainable, Humanity Centered

by Don Norman

ISBN: 9780262548304

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 2, 2024

How human behavior brought our world to the brink, and how human behavior can save us.

Our Urban Future

An Active Learning Guide to Sustainable Cities

by Sabina Shaikh and Emily Talen

ISBN: 9780262546843

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: December 12, 2023

A practical, comprehensive textbook that uses active learning techniques to teach about the challenges and opportunities associated with urban sustainability.