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North: The Future of Post-Climate America

Autor Jesse M. Keenan
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 feb 2026

În cadrul programelor universitare de sociologie și teorie socială, studiul mobilității umane sub presiunea factorilor de mediu a devenit o temă centrală. North, publicată de Oxford University Press, se plasează exact la intersecția dintre demografie, economie și urbanism, propunând o analiză riguroasă a modului în care America post-climatică își va redistribui populația. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Jesse M. Keenan reușește să transforme observațiile științifice despre pericolele climatice într-o proiecție constructivă despre reziliență și administrare ecologică.

Din punct de vedere structural, volumul extinde cadrul propus de Climate Change Adaptation in North America de Walter Leal Filho, aducând date noi despre modul în care piețele și guvernele răspund proactiv la riscuri. Spre deosebire de abordările pur teoretice, Keenan utilizează 16 hărți și numeroase date empirice pentru a documenta fenomenul de abandonare a zonelor cu risc ridicat în favoarea regiunilor nordice, mai temperate. Apreciem faptul că autorul nu se limitează la semnalarea dezastrelor, ci explorează „știința adaptării” ca pe un instrument de mobilitate economică. În comparație cu Sustainable Futures for Climate Adaptation, care critică termenul de sustenabilitate, lucrarea de față adoptă un ton mai pragmatic, axat pe soluții de infrastructură și politici publice.

Această cercetare continuă direcțiile explorate de autor în Climate Adaptation Finance and Investment in California și Blue Dunes – Resiliency by Design, unde a analizat mecanismele financiare și soluțiile de design pentru protecția zonelor costiere. Dacă în lucrările anterioare accentul cădea pe soluții locale de inginerie și finanțe, în North perspectiva devine continentală, abordând transformarea peisajului fizic al orașelor și a politicii electorale sub impactul migrației interne.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197641613
ISBN-10: 019764161X
Pagini: 288
Ilustrații: 13 b/w line drawing; 16 maps; 4 tables
Dimensiuni: 130 x 257 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Această lucrare este esențială pentru studenții și profesioniștii din sociologie, urbanism și politici publice care doresc să înțeleagă viitorul demografic al Americii de Nord. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă clară asupra modului în care schimbările climatice vor dicta noile centre economice și sociale. Este o recomandare solidă pentru cei care caută date concrete, nu doar scenarii alarmiste, despre adaptarea societății la noile realități de mediu.


Despre autor

Jesse M. Keenan este un expert recunoscut în domeniul adaptării climatice și al rezilienței urbane, cu o activitate academică și de consultanță ce face puntea între designul mediului construit și mecanismele financiare. Autorul a publicat lucrări de referință precum COVID-19: Systemic Risk and Resilience și a coordonat proiecte complexe de design pentru protecția regiunilor Mid-Atlantic. Expertiza sa este adesea solicitată de instituții publice și entități private pentru a naviga procesele de management al activelor și finanțelor publice în contextul schimbărilor climatice globale.


Descriere

Climate change is already influencing how and where people live. In North, Jesse M. Keenan argues that America is entering a new era marked by shifts in population that will transform everything from the physical landscape of cities to electoral politics. First, Keenan examines how human mobility is shaped by the environment and the economy. Next, he provides a conceptual and empirical overview of adaptation science, with a focus on how people, governments, and markets are preparing for and responding to climate impacts. He documents how physical impacts in the built environment, escalating costs, and public sector inertia are converging to drive people out of high-risk areas, while, at the same time, certain other areas are attracting people who seek a more sustainable way of life. North is not just a collection of scientific observations and projections about the peril of those left behind. It is also a projection of optimism about America's capacity for decarbonization, environmental stewardship, and economic mobility for those on the move.

Recenzii

From the man who brought us Duluth: North is a persuasive, clear-eyed, and deeply researched guide to the future of climate migration. Jesse Keenan, the authority on this subject, has written an indispensable resource for anyone who wants to understand the complex and often counterintuitive dynamics defining the world to come.
The climate crisis—and the question of where Americans will migrate in response—is inextricably mingled with economic factors like insurance, mortgages, and banking. No one knows this material better than Keenan, who has woven it beautifully into an exploration of America's future.
Climate-driven migration is upon us. North is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how and why people relocate when temperatures rise. With more people on the move, winners and losers have emerged. Importantly, Jesse Keenan shows how all of us can gain.
We need to live differently, in different places, as the physical effects of climate change accelerate, but who will make these decisions and pay for them is unclear—to everyone except Jesse Keenan, whose unrivaled expertise and wealth of insights are captured in this astonishing book. North spells out our shared opportunity as a society to make choices that will lead to better lives, while revealing the inside story of what has gone wrong so far on the policy front. We all need to listen to Keenan, and we are lucky he has written North for all of us.
In this bold and visionary book, Jesse Keenan delivers a wake-up call on one of the most underrecognized consequences of climate instability: migration. Drawing on his unique insight across academia, government, and industry, Keenan charts a transdisciplinary path through the causes, consequences, and responses to climate-driven human mobility. This is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how to preserve democracy and well-being in the face of the coming population upheaval.
Jesse Keenan is a really smart guy with a really big idea: Climate change will shape where many of us will live, and that will rearrange our cities, our landscape, and our society. North will change the way you think about tomorrow."
As the climate changes, America's plants and animals are shifting northward as their habitat changes; it makes perfect sense that people will, too. Jesse Keenan has spent years studying 'climigrants' and their effects on society, culture, housing, and business-and now it's America's turn. Lucky for us, the man knows how to write, how to advise, and how to persuade. Spoiler: He's surprisingly optimistic about the results.
Keenan is a recognized expert on climate adaptation. In North, he combines cutting edge scholarship with an in-depth discussion of the factors that are already causing Americans to seek safer climate locations. Keenan's core message rings true: although nowhere is truly a climate haven, Americans will continue to adapt by moving away from areas prone to hotter temperatures, wildfires, droughts, sea level rise, floods, and hurricanes. Keenan strikes a note of optimism for northern places that receive climigrants as having the opportunity to create sustainable and equitable communities. This is an important book not just for policymakers and financial managers, but for any American concerned about the future.
In his forthcoming book, aptly titled North: The Future of Post-Climate America, Keenan anticipates a major climate migration-out of the South to cooler, less volatile climes-driven partly by disaster but also by a simple preference for milder weather...In the next 30 years, climate disruptions won't make whole states unlivable, and demographic shifts might not reach full exodus levels. But in America, small change is often deeply felt, and bit by bit, the American economy and culture will likely be transformed by climate attrition and the redistribution of people.

Notă biografică

Jesse M. Keenan is the Favrot II Associate Professor of Sustainable Real Estate and Urban Planning and the Director of the Center on Climate Change and Urbanism at Tulane University. Keenan's research focuses on the intersection of climate change adaptation and the built environment, including aspects of applied science, design, regulation, and planning. Keenan has previously advised agencies of the U.S. government, governors, mayors, Fortune 500 companies, technology ventures, community enterprises, and international NGOs. Keenan formerly served as the Director and Area Head for Real Estate and the Built Environment on the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Design and as the Research Director of the Center for Urban Real Estate on the faculty of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University.