This book calls for more holistic place-based action to address the social and environmental crisis, deploying the Deep Place approach as one contribution to the toolbox of actions that will underpin the UN Decade of Action towards the Sustainable Development Goals. The authors suggest that 'place' is a critical window on how to conceive a resolution to the multiple and overlapping crises. As well as diagnosing the problem (the world as it is), this book also offers a normative advocacy (the world as it could/should be and proposed pathways to get there). A series of 'Deep Place' case studies from the UK, Australia, and Vanuatu help to illustrate this approach. Ultimately, the book argues for the need for a real and green 'new deal' and identifies what this should be like. It suggests that a new economic order, whilst eventually inevitable, requires radical change. This will not be easy but will be essential given the current impasse, caused, not least by the conjunction of carbon-based, neoliberal capitalism in crisis and the multifactorial global ecological crisis. Ultimately, it concludes that there is a need to develop a new model of 'regenerative collectivism' to overcome these crises. This book will be of interest to academics, policy practitioners, and social and climate justice advocates/activists.

This book calls for more holistic place-based action to address the social and environmental crisis, deploying the Deep Place approach as one contribution to the toolbox of actions that will underpin the UN Decade of Action towards the Sustainable Development Goals. The authors suggest that 'place' is a critical window on how to conceive a resolution to the multiple and overlapping crises. As well as diagnosing the problem (the world as it is), this book also offers a normative advocacy (the world as it could/should be and proposed pathways to get there). A series of 'Deep Place' case studies from the UK, Australia, and Vanuatu help to illustrate this approach. Ultimately, the book argues for the need for a real and green 'new deal' and identifies what this should be like. It suggests that a new economic order, whilst eventually inevitable, requires radical change. This will not be easy but will be essential given the current impasse, caused, not least by the conjunction of carbon-based, neoliberal capitalism in crisis and the multifactorial global ecological crisis. Ultimately, it concludes that there is a need to develop a new model of 'regenerative collectivism' to overcome these crises. This book will be of interest to academics, policy practitioners, and social and climate justice advocates/activists.

In the aftermath of the March 11, 2011 Japanese tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster, millions of tons of debris are about to invade America's West Coast. The debris has carried with it an ecosystem bathed in radioactive waste. Could that foreign waste and marine life carry with it a mutated contagion so virulent it could wipe out the human race? Seismobiologist, Martin Ford, isn't psychic but uses his knowledge of animal behavior to foretell earthquakes. His latest prophecy, a megaquake along the Pacific Ring of Fire, compels him to convince California Governor Malcolm Finch to evacuate the coast. However, his warnings are neglected. But when his prediction materializes, the occupants of San Francisco University Hospital (SFUH) are quarantined and the city of San Francisco placed under martial law. Within SFUH, a deadly contagion is spreading. Martin Ford must save his fiancee, held under quarantine, before she contracts the deadly disease. But when he uncovers the truth about the deadly contagion, he's ordered killed by the President of the United States.