Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies evaluates local and indigenous ecological knowledge which may help populations cope with insecurity due to environmental, sociopolitical and economic stressors, through positive examples from Southeast Asian islands.

Der gezähmte Prometheus traces large fire catastrophes and the rise of the insurance business from its beginnings in fifteenth century Europe to its boom in nineteenth century globalized metropoles across the world.

This 1988 photograph by Richard Misrach portrays the influential activist group Princesses Against Plutonium.