A bold and exciting exploration of the relationship and interactions between humans, the human landscape and the earth, looking at a diverse range of case studies from the nineteenth-century city to the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina.

ROD GIBLETT is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at the School of Communications and Arts at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia. He is the author of Sublime Communication Technologies and The Body of Nature and Culture (both published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2008).