Energy, Resource Extraction and Society: Impacts and Contested Futures

ISBN-13: 9780815380153 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 236 str.

Anna Szolucha

Opis

Through global studies the book addresses the social effects of resource extraction and energy projects, and their significance for contested energy and social futures.

Spis treści

Introduction: Conceptualising energy impacts and contested energy futures  1. Extractive inequalities: coal, land-acquisition and class in rural New South Wales, Australia  2. Petroleum in the Barents Region: local impacts and dreams at sea  3. Creating and debating energy citizenship: the case of shale gas in Poland  4. Energy practices and the construction of energy democracy in the Noordoostpolder (the Netherlands)  5. Energy democracy and the co-production of social and technological systems in north-eastern North America  6. Community Renewable Energy in Developing Countries: An Assessment Challenge  7. Class, CO₂ and Urban Climate Change Mitigation: On Saving Energy in a Post-Industrial German City  8. Contested wind energy: Discourses on energy impacts and their significance for energy justice in Fosen  9. What Lies Below: the politics of resource conflict in Turkana, Kenya  10. Integrative Currents? Electrifying the Turkey-EU Relations in Times of Blackout.   11. An assessment of current regulation and suggestions for a citizen-centered approach to the governing of UK hydraulic fracturing  12. Conclusion: Resource extraction, energy impacts and openings for change