Outputs
Booth, K. (2026) In Collapse: When Insurance and Climate Collide. Palgrave Pivot.
Sykes, T. and Booth, K. (2025) ‘Collapse: On a crash course with reality and what to do about it’. In, M. Azouley, Climate Collapse? Calls to Action from Around the World. Arkbound Foundation, pp.321-343.
Australian Broadcasting Corporation (2025) ‘We’re f**ked: Is it too late to avoid civilisational collapse?’ Radio National, Big Ideas. 15 October 2025.
Booth, K. and Sykes, T. (2025) ‘Tiny Book of Insurgent Planning‘. Just Collapse.
Booth, K. (2025) NSW is again cleaning up after major floods. Are we veering towards the collapse of insurability? The Conversation 30 May 2025.
Burton, A. (2025) Geographical imaginaries of escape: Discourses of escapism in the Tasmanian archive. Geographical Research: https://doi.org/10.1111/1745-5871.70008
Burton, A. (2025) A Natural Penitentiary: Geographical Imaginaries of Tasmania in Marcus Clarke’s ‘For the Term of His Natural Life’. Literary Geographies11(1):21-38.
Burton, A. (2024) Greg Sharzer’s (2022) Late escapism and contemporary neoliberalism: Alienation, work and utopia. Geographical Research 62(3):472-474.
Booth, K. and Martini, G. (2024) Insurance in a changing climate: from commonsense to catastrophe. Finance and Space: https://doi.org/10.1080/2833115X.2024.2344496
Burton, A. (2023) Book review: The Future is Degrowth, not Apocalypse. Apocalytica 1(2): https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.apoc.2022.2.24759
Booth, K. and Sykes, T. (2023) ‘Little Book of Insurgent Planning‘. Just Collapse.
Booth, K. and Lucas, C. (2022) ‘What insurance tells us about our (in)capacity for climate resilience’. Common Dreams 8 Sept 2022.
Burton, A. (2022) Love and apocalypse: an allegory for studying the end times. CAPAS online articles: https://doi.org/10.21428/75bc60de.514b4ecf
Other resources
Brozović, D. (2023) Societal Collapse: A Literature Review. Futures 145:103075.
Catton, W. (1982) Overshoot: The ecological basis of revolutionary change. University of Illinois Press: Chicago.
de Oliveira, V.M. (2021). Hospicing Modernity: Facing humanity’s wrongs and the implications for social activism. North Atlantic Books: Berkeley.
Degroot, D., Anchukaitis, K., Bauch, M. et al. (2021) Towards a rigorous understanding of societal responses to climate change. Nature 591, 539–550.
Hentschel, C., and Krasmann, S. (2026). Collapse awareness in the face of climate breakdown and urbicide. Critical Studies on Security, 14(1), 2–16.
Rost, S. (2025) Collapsed social work: a theoretical framework for adapting to societal collapse. Critical and Radical Social Work.
Understanding Just Collapse
A Planned Collapse. WTF? ‘Planning’ and ‘collapse’ are not normally words that go together. In these unprecedented times, we explain not only how they do work together but how, in combination, they redefine the parameters of political struggle and activism, and how people can begin work for a planned collapse.
A #JustCollapse – WTF? ‘Justice has been understood as an important element of civilisational advancement and cohesion… A Just Collapse is about achieving outcomes based on decline rather than progress but is still a means of holding together what remains, as best we can.’
Just Collapse has developed a unique theory of change that addresses the realities of the 21st century and global collapse. Termed, Riding the Zeitgeist, this underpins how to turn our strategy into actions.
As we collapse, these free books – Tiny Book of Insurgent Planning and Little Book of Insurgent Planning – provide examples of what action we can take collectively. How do we struggle together as the world we have depended upon contracts and decays? How will we work together as food and water systems breakdown? How can we act to secure alternate resources?
In this short video, Associate Professor Kate Booth details how and why Insurgent Planning is a useful response for achieving socio-ecological justice in face of collapse.
Interviews and forums
LATEST INTERVIEW: Music for the End of the World – Part 1 and Part 2, with Chris Hamilton from 93.7 Edge FM.
LATEST FORUM: This is Collapse – what do we do now? University of Tasmania forum with A/Prof Kate Booth, Dr Tadzio Muller, and Tristan Sykes.
As climate collapse accelerates, what do we do? Human Insights podcast with James Cox.
Approaching collapse: Some do’s and don’ts. University forum with Just Collapse, Real GND, and Prof Bill Rees.
Changing the parameters of politics and activism. Interview with David Baum, Collapse Club.
Just Collapse #1. First recorded conversation with the Extinctionati.
Just Collapse #2. Second recorded conversation with the Extinctionati.
Illusion of techno-solutions – “we can’t swallow horses to solve this problem”. Interview with Jade Miles, Futuresteading.
Overshoot, Talk Collapse and Insurgent Planning. Interview with Matthew Azoulay, Epic Tomorrows.
Planning for a Just Collapse. Interview with Michael Bayliss and Mark Allen, Post Growth Australia.
Talk Collapse. Interview with David Baum and Jordan Perry, Collapse Club.
Talk Collapse: If we don’t talk, we won’t know, and we can’t plan. University forum with Richard Heinberg and Just Collapse.
Towards a Just Collapse. Interview with Eric Garza, Quillwood Academy.
Unprecedented territory. Podcast with the Sustainability Hour.
War on the World. Excerpt from World Beyond War’s “War in a Changing Climate” forum.
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