Super Polluters - Tackling the Worlds Largest Sites of Climate-Disrupting Emissions

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations and Tables
Acknowledgments
1. Who Is Responsible for This Mess?: The Climate Crisis and Hyperemitting Power Plants
2. Cleaning Up Their Act: Potential Emission Reductions from Targeting the Worst of the Worst Power Plants
3. Recipes for Disaster: How Social Structures Interact to Make Environmentally Destructive Plants Even More So
4. A Win-Win Solution?: The Paradoxical Effects of Efficiency on Plants’ CO2 Emissions
5. Bottom-Up Strategies: The Effectiveness of Local Policies and Activism (with Ion Bogdan Vasi)
6. Next Steps: Future Research and Action on Society’s Super Polluters
Appendixes
Notes
References

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Don Grant is professor of sociology at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he is also a fellow at the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute and director of the Social Innovation and Care, Health, and Resilience programs.

Andrew Jorgenson is professor and chair of sociology and professor of environmental studies at Boston College. He is the 2020 recipient of the Section on Environmental Sociology's Fred Buttel Distinguished Contribution Award.

Wesley Longhofer is associate professor of organization and management and academic director of social enterprise in the Goizueta Business School at Emory University.

Zusammenfassung

Super Polluters offers a groundbreaking global analysis of carbon pollution caused by the generation of electricity. The sociologists Don Grant, Andrew Jorgenson, and Wesley Longhofer analyze a novel dataset on the carbon dioxide emissions and structural attributes of thousands of fossil-fueled power plants around the world.

Zusatztext

A groundbreaking global account of who bears the blame for our warming planet.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Don Grant, Don Jorgenson Grant, Don/ Jorgenson Grant, Grant Don, Andrew Jorgenson, Jorgenson Andrew, Wesley Longhofer, Longhofer Wesley
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 30.11.2020
• EAN: 9780231192163
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19216-3
• Seiten: 296
• Serie: Society and the Environment
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie; NATURE / Natural Resources, SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Sociology, Climate Change, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Energy Policy, environmental science, engineering & technology, Central / national / federal government policies, Energy resources, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Central government policies