Flame and Fortune in the American West: Urban Development, Environmental Change, and the Great Oakland Hills Fire Gregory L. Simon

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• ISBN 10:0520966163
• ISBN 13:9780520966161
• Author:Gregory L. Simon

Flame and Fortune in the American West creatively and meticulously investigates the ongoing politics, folly, and avarice shaping the production of increasingly widespread yet dangerous suburban and exurban landscapes. The 1991 Oakland Hills Tunnel Fire is used as a starting point to better understand these complex social-environmental processes. The Tunnel Fire is the most destructive fire—in terms of structures lost—in California history. More than 3,000 residential structures burned and 25 lives were lost. Although this fire occurred in Oakland and Berkeley, others like it sear through landscapes in California and the American West that have experienced urban growth and development within areas historically prone to fire.

Table contents:

PART I FLAME AND FORTUNE IN THE AMERICAN WEST: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE INCENDIARY
1. The 1991 Tunnel Fire: The Case for an Affluence-Vulnerability Interface
2. The Changing American West: From “Flammable Landscape” to the “Incendiary”
PART II ILLUMINATING THE AFFLUENCE-VULNERABILITY INTERFACE IN THE TUNNEL FIRE AREA
3. Trailblazing: Producing Landscapes, Extracting Profits, Inserting Risk
4. Setting the Stage for Disaster: Revenue Maximization, Wealth Protection, and Its Discontents
5. Who’s Vulnerable? The Politics of Identifying, Experiencing, and Reducing Risk
PART III HOW THE WEST WAS SPUN: DEPOLITICIZING THE ROOT CAUSES OF WILDFIRE HAZARDS
6. Smoke Screen: When Explaining Wildfires Conceals the Incendiary
7. Debates of Distraction: Our Inability to See the Incendiary for the Spark
PART IV AFTER THE FIRE: THE CONCOMITANT EXPANSION OF AFFLUENCE AND RISK
8. Dispatches from the Field: Win–Win Outcomes and the Limits of Post-Wildfire Mitigation
9. Out of the Ashes: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and Financial Opportunism

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