Damian White is Professor of Social Theory and Environmental Studies and Dean of Liberal Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design, USA. White has published four books to date in the fields of environmental design studies including Bookchin: A Critical Appraisal (2008), and Autonomy, Solidarity, Possibility: The Colin Ward Reader (2011).Nicholas Pevzner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design, and a Faculty Fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at Penn, USA

This fascinating book treats the transition ahead with the nuance and complexity it deserves, but also the brio and confidence it demands. Read it and then go make it real.

• Introduction: Resisting the It’s-too-late-o-cene by DesignChapter 1. The Just Transition as a Social, Political, and Design ImaginaryChapter 2. Environmental, Ecological, and “Nature-Inspired” Design HistoriesChapter 3. Green Design as Threat and Promise for Architecture, Design, and PlanningChapter 4. Labor-Centered and Worker-Centered Design for Just Transitions?Chapter 5. Critical Design Studies and the Labors of CocreationChapter 6. The Green New Deal, Design, Planning, and the Public ImaginationChapter 7. Planetary Designs and Speculative Climate Design FuturesChapter 8. The Politics of the Just Transition in an Age of Disenchantment

Damian White is Professor of Social Theory and Environmental Studies and Dean of Liberal Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design, USA. White has published four books to date in the fields of environmental design studies including Bookchin: A Critical Appraisal (2008), and Autonomy, Solidarity, Possibility: The Colin Ward Reader (2011).Nicholas Pevzner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design, and a Faculty Fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at Penn, USA

This fascinating book treats the transition ahead with the nuance and complexity it deserves, but also the brio and confidence it demands. Read it and then go make it real.

• Introduction: Resisting the It’s-too-late-o-cene by DesignChapter 1. The Just Transition as a Social, Political, and Design ImaginaryChapter 2. Environmental, Ecological, and “Nature-Inspired” Design HistoriesChapter 3. Green Design as Threat and Promise for Architecture, Design, and PlanningChapter 4. Labor-Centered and Worker-Centered Design for Just Transitions?Chapter 5. Critical Design Studies and the Labors of CocreationChapter 6. The Green New Deal, Design, Planning, and the Public ImaginationChapter 7. Planetary Designs and Speculative Climate Design FuturesChapter 8. The Politics of the Just Transition in an Age of Disenchantment

Damian White is Professor of Social Theory and Environmental Studies and Dean of Liberal Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design, USA. White has published four books to date in the fields of environmental design studies including Bookchin: A Critical Appraisal (2008), and Autonomy, Solidarity, Possibility: The Colin Ward Reader (2011).Nicholas Pevzner is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning at the University of Pennsylvania’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design, and a Faculty Fellow at the Kleinman Center for Energy Policy at Penn, USA

This fascinating book treats the transition ahead with the nuance and complexity it deserves, but also the brio and confidence it demands. Read it and then go make it real.

• Introduction: Resisting the It’s-too-late-o-cene by DesignChapter 1. The Just Transition as a Social, Political, and Design ImaginaryChapter 2. Environmental, Ecological, and “Nature-Inspired” Design HistoriesChapter 3. Green Design as Threat and Promise for Architecture, Design, and PlanningChapter 4. Labor-Centered and Worker-Centered Design for Just Transitions?Chapter 5. Critical Design Studies and the Labors of CocreationChapter 6. The Green New Deal, Design, Planning, and the Public ImaginationChapter 7. Planetary Designs and Speculative Climate Design FuturesChapter 8. The Politics of the Just Transition in an Age of Disenchantment