Keywords:
Renewable energy sources.
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Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
The volume introduces original contributions to the debates on peak oil, land grabbing and social alternatives, thus creating a synthesis to gain an overview of the multiple crises of our times. Using the most up to date research on resource crises, this integrative and critical analysis brings together the issues with a radical perspective on possibilites for future change as well as a strong social economic and ethical dimesion.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (318 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781136223181
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=1143772
DDC:
333.8/2
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Land and Resource Scarcity -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on the authors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 Exiting the multiple crises through 'green' growth? -- 2 The end of the black epoch: fossil fuel peaks -- 3 The stuff of the green revolution: nitrogen, potassium and phosphate -- 4 Mining between comeback and dead end -- 5 Land and the centrality of biomass -- 6 The new land grab at the frontiers of the fossil energy regime -- 7 Possible futures among dictatorship, chaos, and living well -- 8 De-growth solidarity: the great socio-ecological transformation of the twenty-first century -- 9 A strategy of double power: the state and global regulation -- References -- Index.
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