The 31 papers on education for a post-apocalyptic world collected in this book range from philosophy to political sciences and from archaeology to appied desaster mitigation; the authors contribute perspectives from four continents.

Michael A. Peters (FRSNZ) is Distinguished Professor at Beijing Normal University, and Emeritus Professor University of Illinois. He has published 120 books and 500 papers. He received the Social Science and Humanities Leader in China Award (2022, 2023) (Research.com) and is ranked 1^st in China and 5^th in Asia for Education, (AD Scientific Index, 2023). He has Honorary Doctorates from Aalborg University, Denmark and SUNY, NY.

Thomas Meier has been trained as an archaeologist and holds a professorship in pre- and proto-history at Heidelberg University. He is director of the Käte Hamburger Center for Apocalyptic- and Post-Apocalyptic Studies at Heidelberg University. Over the years Thomas has focused more and more on the epistemology and conditions of academic reasoning with special focus on critical inquiry and materialities.