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Offers a study of literary and cultural responses to global environmental risk in an age of unfolding ecological catastrophe. Taking inspiration from the questions raised by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists's synecdochical "nuclear", Risk Criticism aims to generate a hybrid form of critical practice that brings "nuclear criticism" into conversation with ecocriticism.

In the face of what seems like a concerted effort to destroy the only planet that can sustain us, critique is an important tool. It is in this vein that most scholars have approached environmental crisis. While there are numerous texts that chronicle contemporary issues in environmental ills, there are relatively few that explore the possibilities and practices which work to avoid collapse and build alternatives.

The keyword of this book's full title, "Perma/Culture," alludes to and plays on "permaculture," an international movement that can provide a framework for...