Beyond the Coal Rush: A Turning Point for Global Energy and Climate Policy?

ISBN-13: 9781108479820 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 288 str.

James Goodman; Linda Connor; Devleena Ghosh

Opis

Climate change makes fossil fuels unburnable, but how can the world stop mining coal - the worst source of greenhouse gas emissions?

Spis treści

Introduction; Chapter 1. The Global Contest over Coal and Development; Chapter 2. India: Coercion, Impunity and the Fight for Adivasi Rights in Chhattisgarh; Chapter 3. Australia: Contesting Coal Capital on the Liverpool Plains; Chapter 4. Germany: Globalizing the Local to Reach the National, Protest against Coal in the Lausitz; Chapter 5. Foundations for the Coal Rush: The post-War 'Coal-Industrial Complex'; Chapter 6. Kyoto and the Coal Boom: Coal's Climate Contradictions; Chapter 7. Coal in a Climate-constrained World: the Last Gasp?; Chapter 8. Concluding Chapter: Dynamics for a Post-Coal Future; Bibliography; Index.