Energy, Resource Extraction and Society - Impacts and Contested Futures

Informationen zum Autor Anna Szolucha is a research fellow at the Polish Academy of Sciences and an affiliated researcher with the ERC Egalitarianism Project at the University of Bergen, Norway. Zusammenfassung Through global studies the book addresses the social effects of resource extraction and energy projects, and their significance for contested energy and social futures. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Product details

• Authors: Anna Szolucha, Anna (Polish Academy of Sciences and Uni Szolucha
• Assisted by: Anna Szolucha (Editor), Anna (Polish Academy of Sciences and University of Bergen Szolucha (Editor), Szolucha Anna (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2018
• EAN: 9780815380153
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-8015-3
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development; Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Climate Change, NATURE / Ecology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Mining, Anthropology, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / General, environmental science, engineering & technology, Energy resources, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Mining Industry, Agribusiness and primary industries