Timescapes of Modernity focuses on time to facilitate a deeper understanding of the interactions between environmental, economic, political and socio-cultural concerns. Barbara Adam argues that environmental hazards are inescapably tied to the successes of the industrial way of life: global markets and economic growth; large-scale production of food; the speed of transport and communication; the 24 hour society and even democratic politics. Introducing the notion of timescapes, she emphasises the complexity of time and brings to the forefront of socio-environmental concerns the rhythms that permeate this story of industrial success and excess. With this unique 'timescape' perspective the author dislodges taken-for-granted assumptions about environmental change, enables a reformulation of environmental problems and their cures and provides the potential for innovative new strategies to deal with some of the most severe environmental hazards of our time.