Land and Resource Scarcity: Capitalism, Struggle and Well-Being in a World Without Fossil Fuels

ISBN-13: 9780415630610 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 320 str.

Andreas Exner; Peter Fleissner; Lukas Kranzl

Opis

This volume brings together geological, biological, radical economic, technological, historical, and social perspectives on peak oil and other scarce resources. The contributors argue that these scarcities will put an end to the capitalist system as we know it and alternatives must be created.

Recenzje

"Unlike in the majority of books where each chapter is written by different people, in this case the editing process has allowed the chapters to be interwoven without repeating ideas, and the result is a coherent block with clear ideas that are developed throughout the book. A second virtue of the book is that it broadens the reader’s perspective and tries to provide a complex view of reality. Sociological, economic, environmental, energetic and psychological aspects are dealt with in an intertwined way. Only analyses of this type will lead to finding satisfactory solutions to the crisis of civilization in which we find ourselves." – Luis Glez Reyes

Spis treści

1. Exiting the Multiple Crisis through "Green" Growth, Elmar Altvater and Margot Geiger 2. The End of the Black Epoch: Fossil Fuel Peaks, Werner Zittel  3. The Stuff of the Green Revolution: Nitrogen, Potassium and Phosphate, Werner Zittel 4. Coloured Metals or the Mining Comeback,Werner Zittel, Andreas Exner  5. Land and the Centrality of Biomass, Lukas Kranzl, Gerald Kalt, Christian Lauk, Kay Kemendy, Andreas Exner  6. The New Land Grab at the Frontiers of the Fossil Energy Regime, Andreas Exner 7. Possible Futures among Dictatorship, Chaos, and Living Well , Peter Fleissner and Andreas Exner 8. De-growth Solidarity: The Great Socio-Ecological Transformation of the 21st Century, Andreas Exner  9. A Strategy of Double Power: The State and Global Regulation, Andreas Exner

O autorze

Andreas Exner is an ecologist at Umweltbüro GmbH, Austria. Peter Fleissner was Professor at Vienna University of Technology, Austria, until he retired in 2006. Lukas Kranzl is a senior researcher at the Energy Economics Group at Vienna University of Technology, Austria. Werner Zittel is a scientist at Ludwig Bölkow Systemtechnik GmbH, Germany.