Challenging Legitimacy at the Precipice of Energy Calamity

2011
ISBN: 978-1-4939-0104-3
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 382 g

Human history has often been described as a progressive relinquishment from environmental constraints. Now, it seems, we have come full circle. The ecological irrationalities associated with industrial societies have a lengthy history, and our purpose in the proposed book is not to catalogue this litany of wrongs. Rather, this book is about political responses to global environmental crisis at a crucial turning point in history, by focusing on the political discourses surrounding the tar sands in Alberta, Canada.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gismondi, Mike

Davidson, Debra J.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Umweltgeologie, Geoökologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Sonstige Technologien | Angewandte Technik Ölförderung, Gasförderung
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Wirtschaftsgeologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Energie- & Versorgungswirtschaft Öl- und Gasindustrie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Look Who's Talking.- Observing Global Flows.- Visualizing the Tar Sands Through Time.- Capital, Labour, and the State.- Ecological Disruption.- Energy Matters.- Lessons from the Study.- A View from the Future.- Index.